Florida Senate Republicans approved a bill that paves the way for the GOP governor to soon take control of Walt Disney World’s self-governing district.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon take control of Walt Disney World’s self-governing district after Senateapproved a bill Friday punishing the company over its opposition to the law critics call “Don’t Say Gay.”
The Disney district takeover was initiated last year when Disney publicly opposed “Don’t Say Gay,” which bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade and lessons deemed not age-appropriate. The measure also changes the district’s name from the Reedy Creek Improvement District to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and subjects it to various layers of state oversight. Board members are currently named through entities controlled by Disney.
The creation of the district was instrumental in the company’s decision to build near Orlando in the 1960s. One bill is meant to cut off a legal challenge to the governor’s migrant relocation program, which began last year when DeSantis used taxpayer dollars to fly a group of South American migrants from Texas to the liberal enclave resort island of Martha’s Vineyard.The trip drew legal questions because the administration paid for the flight using money intended to remove migrants who were located in Florida, not migrants who were in any other state.
The other proposal is meant to strengthen the prosecutorial power of the governor’s election police unit, clarifying in state law that the statewide prosecutor has authority to prosecute election crimes in federal and state races.
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