Summing up the session

By TIMES STAFF
Published May 5, 2007

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Legislators got some things done ... 

• AT THE POLLS: Mandates paper trails at the polls and moves up Florida's presidential primary to Jan. 29, 2008
• TUITION: Allows UF, FSU and USF to charge incoming undergraduates 30 to 40 percent more in tuition.
• TEACHERS: Provides $147.5-million in bonuses for teachers and administrators.
• PROBATION: Requires immediate incarceration and hearings for probation violators, plus stiffer penalties.
• CITIZENS: Extends the premium rate freeze for customers of Citizens Property Insurance.
• SEX CONSENT: Protects teens involved in consensual sexual relationships from new sex offender database registration requirements.
• CABLE TV: Allows statewide franchising of cable TV, which makes it easier for telephone firms to compete.
• TRANSPORTATION: Creates the Tampa Bay Regional Transportation Authority, charged with building a network of toll roads, rail lines and express buses for seven counties.

... and left other things undone

• PROPERTY TAX REFORM: If it happens at all, it will have to wait for a special session beginning June 12.
• PRO SPORTS: Would have provided money for the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Florida Marlins and Orlando Magic.
• NO FAULT: No action taken, so drivers will soon be able to drop minimum medical coverage for collisions.
• VACCINE: Would have added a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer to the list of immunizations for girls in public and private middle schools.
• GUNS: Would have allowed employees to keep firearms in the cars they park at the workplace.
• VOUCHERS: Would have increased the amount of private-school vouchers for low-income middle and high school students.