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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ron DeSantis (R) has signed legislation barring local and municipal governments from requiring their own heat protections for workers.
The bill’s passage comes after the state’s most populous county, Miami-Dade, considered local heat protection rules that would have been among the most stringent in the country.
That proposal would have required employers to provide shade, water and 10-minute breaks to workers every two hours on days over a certain heat threshold.
“Instead of addressing the skyrocketing insurance crisis or protecting our workforce, the Governor chose to abandon millions of hard-working Floridians and leave our state even more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,” Sierra Club Florida Political Director Luigi Guadarrama said in a statement.
“Instead of offering real solutions for working families, HB433 will endanger the health and lives of thousands of outdoor workers in our state.”
Another confounding variable is the challenge of incorporating noncitizens, including immigrants lacking permanent legal status and guest workers, into the data.
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