'Rural Renaissance' Broken Up in House

‘Rural Renaissance’ broken up in House

TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Ben Albritton, a citrus grower from Hardee County, has made what he calls the “rural renaissance” plan a priority of the 2025 legislative session.

'Rural Renaissance' Broken Up in House

TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Ben Albritton, a citrus grower from Hardee County, has made what he calls the “rural renaissance” plan a priority of the 2025 legislative session.

'Rural renaissance' broken up in house | Santa Rosa Press Gazette

By Jim Saunders The plan (SB 110), unanimously passed last month by the Senate, would take a series of steps to try to boost health care, education, transportation and economic development in rural areas of the state. But with the legislative session in its final two scheduled weeks, the House has taken pieces of the Senate plan and mixed them into at least three other bills — including bills that have drawn opposition because of proposals unrel…