Florida Business News

• Up to 1 million Floridians with unpaid bills face October utility shutoffs

  Florida’s investor-owned utilities are ending voluntary agreements to not pull the plug on residential accounts for nonpayment but are offering pandemic assistance programs to help customers catch up on electricity bills.

• NASA, SpaceX pick wee hours of Halloween for next launch of astronauts to the space station

  NASA and SpaceX are planning to launch another crew of astronauts to the International Space Station from Florida on Halloween morning, following a successful round-trip test mission to the ISS earlier this year.

• Millions of new rapid COVID tests on their way to Florida

  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said by the end of the week, Florida will start to get 6.4 million rapid COVID-19 tests from the federal government that will be a “game changer” for testing vulnerable seniors and schoolchildren.

• New Florida laws go into effect Thursday

  From stricter penalties for ripping off military veterans to new guidelines for specialty license plates, 24 laws go into effect Thursday after being passed during the 2020 legislative session.

• Florida school opening lawsuit gets nudge forward

  A small decision by the 1st District Court of Appeal could put the state’s school reopening lawsuit back on track for the expedited ruling that many expected.

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