For the first time since he took office in 2019, Gov. Ron DeSantis allowed legislation to become law without his signature.
Three bills became law without DeSantis’ explicit approval at midnight of July 3. One of them, HB 1219, is a measure pushed by big businesses – including GOP megadonor Ken Griffin’s Citadel hedge fund.
The new law, named the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act, strengthens the enforcement of non-compete and “garden leave” clauses in employment contracts.
Groups of free market think tanks and labor law activists and professors spoke out against the bill and urged DeSantis to veto it.
“The CHOICE Act would codify one of the most anti-innovation, anti-startup, and anti-worker policies to be found anywhere in the country,” John Lettieri, President and CEO of the Economic Innovation Group, a Washington D.C.-based public policy research and advocacy organization, said in May. “While dozens of other states are enacting limitations on the use of noncompete agreements, this legislation...
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