Advocacy

Tallahassee, Fla. – AARP has filed a “friend of the court” brief in a state Supreme Court case challenging a decision by the state Public Service Commission (PSC) approving a contested settlement giving Florida Power & Light (FPL) a $354-million rate increase -- far greater than it even asked for in its petition.

Tallahassee, Fla. -- To help educate older Floridians on how your state legislators are voting, AARP Florida will be working in 2013 to make information on lawmakers’ votes easier and quicker to find. AARP will be tracking votes on key issues including a ban on texting while driving, curbing annuities fraud, cracking down utility companies' extra fees for nuclear power plants that may never be built, and expanding affordable health-care coverage to uninsured Floridians of modest means.

Doug Heinlen to Serve Third Two-Year Term as AARP FL President

Tallahassee, Fla. – AARP Florida State Director Jeff Johnson issued this statement Monday in reaction to a straight party-line vote in a House committee not to recommend expansion of Medicaid:

Texting while driving, better health-care coverage, and nuclear-power-plant advance fees are all on legislators' agenda this year.

St. Petersburg, Fla. – As budget negotiations continue in Washington, AARP Florida today released an analysis showing the negative impact one proposal – the so called “chained CPI” -- would have on Florida’s veterans’ compensation and pensions .

Do you know how your state legislator voted in 2012 on key issues that affect Floridians 50+?