FL Passes Bill To Retroactively Undo Disney Board Deal

Florida Politics reports:

The Legislature has passed a bill seeking to retroactively invalidate Disney’s agreement with its outgoing board — a contract now at the center of an ongoing civil lawsuit.
Senators approved SB 1604 with a 27-13 vote Thursday evening. The bill is seeking to roll back an agreement Disney made with its old Reedy Creek Improvement Board in the weeks before the state fired those members.

During Thursday’s brief debate, Sen. Jason Pizzo asked the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, if he was aware of the legal fight brewing over Disney and its new board over the agreements. “Not that I’m aware of. I have no knowledge of that,” said Ingoglia, a Republican from Spring Hill, who contended he hadn’t heard about the Disney legal fight that’s attracted national headlines in recent days.

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Ingoglia [photo] last appeared here for his bill that would effectively ban the Democratic Party from operating in Florida. Ingoglia first appeared on JMG in May 2021 when he introduced an ultimately failed bill that would have banned giving water to people waiting in line to vote. Ingoglia was chair of the Florida GOP from 2015 to 2019.

Legislature passes bill to retroactively cancel @WaltDisneyWorld agreement which kneecapped the new, @GovRonDeSantis-backed board

Reporting by @GabrielleRussonhttps://t.co/q8EVojuhEc#FlaPol

— Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) May 5, 2023