Legislative Matrix: Representatives, State and Senators

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District State Governor: Ron DeSantis
State Senators: Miami-Dade
Florida House of Representatives: Nicholas X. Duran
Federal Senators from Florida
United States Representatives
References

District State Governor: Ron DeSantis

Ron DeSantis is currently the governor of Florida. He was elected in 2019 on a platform that stressed health care as one of his primary concerns, focusing largely on empowering patients to obtain health care plans best suited for their interests (Ron DeSantis, n.d.). Another notable part of his health care agenda was taking a firm stand against opioid addiction in Florida (Ron DeSantis, n.d.). In 2019, Governor DeSantis has signed Executive Order 19-36, prolonging the state of emergency caused by the opioid epidemic (DeSantis, 2019). Considering this, Governor DeSantis will likely demonstrate a further interest in legislation on health care with particular emphasis on combating opioid addiction.

State Senators: Miami-Dade

	Party	Committee Assignments
Oscar II Braynon	Democrat	Ethics and Elections (Vice-Chair) Appropriations (Member) Innovation, Industry, and Technology (Member) Rules (Member) Joint Legislative Budget Commission (Member)
Manny Diaz, Jr.	Republican	Education (Chair) Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Vice-Chair) Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (Member) Ethics and Elections (Member) Health Policy (Member) Joint Select Committee on Collective Bargaining (Member)
Anitere Flores	Republican	Community Affairs (Chair) Appropriations (Member) Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Member) Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (Member) Criminal Justice (Member) Rules (Member)
Jason W.B. Pizzo	Democrat	Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Member) Community Affairs (Member) Criminal Justice (Member) Finance and Tax (Member) Military and Veterans Affairs and Space (Member)
Jose Havier Rodriguez	Democrat	Judiciary (Vice-Chair) Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government (Member) Ethics and Elections (Member) Rules (Member)
Annette Taddeo	Democrat	Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice (Member) Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development (Member) Banking and Insurance (Member) Infrastructure and Security (Member)

Source: The Florida Senate (2019).

Florida House of Representatives: Nicholas X. Duran

Representative Duran, a Democrat, was first elected in 2016. His committee assignments are as follows:

Health & Human Services Committee (Democratic Ranking Member)
Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee (Democratic Ranking Member)
Appropriations Committee (Member)
Health Market Reform Subcommittee (Member) (Nicholas X. Duran, n.d.)

Federal Senators from Florida

Party

Committee Assignments

Marco Rubio

Republican

Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Chair)
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Womens Issues (Chair)
Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy (Member)
Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development (Member)

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Member)
Senate Committee on Appropriations

Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (Member)
Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies (Member)
Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies (Member)
Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (Member)
Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Member)

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (Member)
Senate Special Committee on Aging (Member)

Rick Scott

Republican

Senate Committee on Armed Services

Subcommittee on Airland (Member)
Subcommittee on Cybersecurity (Member)
Subcommittee on Personnel (Member)

Senate Committee on the Budget (Member)
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet (Member)
Subcommittee on Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather (Member)
Subcommittee on Security (Member)
Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety (Member)

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management (Member)
Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management (Member)

Senate Special Committee on Aging (Member)

Sources: Marco Rubio, (n.d.), Rick Scott, n.d.

United States Representatives

As of 2019, there are 27 representatives of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives (Florida Representatives, n.d.) Two of them are Neal Dunn and Donna Shalala. Neal Dunn is a Republican, was first elected to Congress 2017, and is up for re-election in 2020 (Neal Dunn, n.d.). He sits in the House Committee of Agriculture as a ranking member of Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research and a member of Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit and in House Committee on Veterans Affairs as a ranking member of its Subcommittee on Health (Neal Dunn, n.d.). He has sponsored bill H.R. 3832: Veterans Opioid Abuse Prevention Act, which was successfully enacted (Neal Dunn, n.d.). As one can see, he shares Governor DeSantis uncompromising position on the opioid epidemic.

Donna Shalala is a Democrat, who was first elected to Congress in 2019 and is up for re-election in 2020 (Donna Shalala, n.d.). In Congress, she sits in the House Committee on Rules as the Vice-Chair of Subcommittee on Expedited Procedures and a Member of Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process (Donna Shalala, n.d.). She also sits in the House Committee on Education and Labor, being a Member of the Subcommittees on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (Donna Shalala, n.d.). Representative Shalala has sponsored such bills as H.R. 4322: Expanding Cannabis Research and Information Act and H.R. 3215: Disaster Relief Medicaid Act, although neither of these have been signed into law yet.