Senate passes Rural Renaissance Bill

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. In a bipartisan vote on Wednesday, Jan. 14, the second day of the legislative session, the Florida Senate unanimously approved Senate Bill (SB) 250, titled Rural Communities, more popularly called the Rural Renaissance Bill. Sponsored by Senator Corey Simon, whose district encompasses 12 fiscally constrained counties including Jefferson, the measure reportedly was championed by Senate President Ben Allbritton, who made it one of his top priorities for the cu