— Legislature:
HART DISCUSSES PRISON DEATHS
Time: 9 a.m.
Description: Rep. Dianne Hart, D-Tampa, will hold a news conference to discuss people who have died in the state prison system because of alleged neglect and abuse.
Location: Fourth-floor rotunda, the Capitol.
HOUSE DEMOCRATS HOLD MEDIA AVAILABILITY
Time: 10 a.m.
Description: House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, and other Democrats will hold a media availability. Participants are expected to include Rep. Kelly Skidmore, D-Boca Raton; Rep. Christine Hunschofsky, D-Parkland; Rep. Patricia Williams, D-Pompano Beach; Rep. Dan Daley, D-Coral Springs; and Rep. Robin Bartleman, D-Weston.
CITY AUDITS ON AGENDA
Time: 10 a.m.
Description: The Joint Legislative Auditing Committee will consider requests for the auditor general to conduct audits of Delray Beach, White Springs and North Miami Beach.
Location: 412 Knott Building, the Capitol.
IMPASSE ISSUES DISCUSSED
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Description: The Joint Select Committee on Collective Bargaining will hold a hearing on issues at impasse with unions.
Location: Reed Hall, House Office Building, the Capitol.
LGBTQ ISSUES ADDRESSED
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Description: The group Equality Florida will hold a news conference to criticize Gov. Ron DeSantis on LGBTQ issues. Sen. Shevrin Jones, D-Miami Gardens, Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, and Rep. Michele Rayner-Goolsby, D-St. Petersburg, are expected to take part.
Location: Fourth-floor rotunda, the Capitol.
GUN-BUYING AGE DEBATED
Time: 3 p.m.
Description: The House Criminal Justice Subcommittee will consider a proposal (HB 1543), filed by Rep. Bobby Payne, R-Palatka, and Rep. Tyler Sirois, R-Merritt Island, that would lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 to buy rifles and other long guns. The bill would reverse a change passed after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Location: 404 House Office Building, the Capitol.
GAS STOVES GET ATTENTION
Time: 3 p.m.
Description: The House Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee will take up a bill (HB 1281), filed by Rep. James Buchanan, R-Osprey, that would prevent local governments from restricting the use of gas stoves or other appliances.
Location: Reed Hall, House Office Building, the Capitol.
DIVERSITY, TENURE TARGETED
Time: 3 p.m.
Description: The House Postsecondary Education & Workforce Subcommittee will consider a proposal (HB 999), filed by Rep. Alex Andrade, R-Pensacola, that would make wide-ranging changes in the higher-education system. For example, the bill would prevent colleges and universities from spending money on diversity, equity and inclusion programs and would allow university boards of trustees to review faculty members’ tenure.
Location: Morris Hall, House Office Building, the Capitol.
AMUSEMENT RIDE SAFETY SOUGHT
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Description: The Senate Agriculture Committee will take up a bill (SB 904), filed by Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Windermere, that would make a series of changes aimed at bolstering the safety of amusement rides, after a 14-year-old boy was killed last year in Orlando.
Location: 301 Senate Office Building, the Capitol.
TECH ISSUES ADDRESSED
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Description: The Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee will consider a proposal (SB 262), filed by Sen. Jennifer Bradley, R-Fleming Island, that would address a series of technology issues, including consumer data privacy.
Location: 110 Senate Office Building, the Capitol.
PRIVATE PRISONS AT ISSUE
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Description: The Senate Criminal Justice Committee will take up a bill (SPB 7016) that would shift oversight of privately run prisons from the Department of Management Services to the Department of Corrections.
Location: 37 Senate Office Building, the Capitol.
TRANSGENDER TREATMENTS DEBATED
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Description: The Senate Health Policy Committee will consider a proposal (SB 254), filed by Sen. Clay Yarbrough, R-Jacksonville, that includes preventing doctors from providing treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender minors.
Location: 412 Knott Building, the Capitol.
SPECIAL ORDER SET
Time: 15 minutes after committee meetings end
Description: The Senate Special Order Calendar Group will set a special-order calendar, which lists bills that will be heard on the Senate floor.
Location: 401 Senate Office Building, the Capitol.
RULES COMMITTEE MEETS
Time: 6:15 p.m.
Description: The House Rules Committee will meet to set a special-order calendar, which lists bills that will be heard on the House floor.
Location: 404 House Office Building, the Capitol.
— Also:
GENERAL REVENUE UPDATED
Time: 9 a.m.
Description: The Revenue Estimating Conference will update projections of state general revenue, which plays a key role in funding schools, health care and prisons.
Location: 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER APPOINTED
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Description: Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet will appoint an insurance commissioner. DeSantis last month nominated Michael Yaworsky, who began serving on an interim basis until DeSantis and the Cabinet could meet in their role as the state Financial Services Commission. Also, DeSantis and the Cabinet will consider spending nearly $19 million to preserve 4,222 acres in Osceola County and 1,506 acres in Santa Rosa County
Location: Cabinet meeting room, the Capitol. DeSantis and Cabinet members will participate by phone.
JOBLESS NUMBERS RELEASED
Time: 10 a.m.
Description: The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity is scheduled to release a January unemployment report.
DESANTIS DISCUSSES HIGHER ED
Time: 10 a.m.
Description: Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a livestreamed discussion with state university system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues and Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr.
Location: Livestreamed on Rumble, Grabien, Twitter and Facebook.
SPACE ISSUES ON TABLE
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Description: The Space Florida Board of Directors will meet.
Location: Call-in Number: 1-855-758-1310. Meeting ID: 6277636389. Code: 567768
CONWAY SPEAKS IN PALM BEACH
Time: 7 p.m.
Description: Kellyanne Conway, who served as a senior counselor to former President Donald Trump, will speak to Club 47 USA in Palm Beach County.
Location: Hilton Palm Beach Airport, 150 Australian Ave., West Palm Beach.