Florida passes bill to end Disney’s special status amid LGBTQ education feud – National
Florida legislators handed a invoice on Thursday that may revoke Walt Disney Co’s DIS.N self-governing standing in a transfer extensively seen as tit-for-tat for the corporate’s opposition to a brand new state regulation limiting dialogue of LGBTQ points in faculties.
The invoice now heads to the desk of Governor Ron DeSantis, who’s all however assured to signal it. The 70-to-38 vote by the Republican-led state Home to do away with a particular tax district that permits Disney to self-govern the roughly 25,000-acre Orlando space the place its Disney World theme park complicated is situated comes a day after the state Senate handed the measure.
(Reporting by Maria Caspani; further reporting by Daybreak Chmielewski; Modifying by Leslie Adler)
