Vol. 73/No. 16 April 27, 2009
The Florida state legislature adopted the law last year. It required travel agencies in the state that sell trips to Cuba to post a $250,000 bond and pay up to $25,000 in registration fees. Proceeds from the bond, according to Florida State Rep. David Rivera, would have been used to investigate travel agencies. The law had not gone into effect, pending the outcome of a lawsuit by travel agencies to block it.
In August 2008 a federal judge ruled unconstitutional a Florida law preventing students, professors, and researchers at state universities and community colleges from using state or federal fundsor even private grantsto travel to Cuba or four other countries on the U.S. list of terrorist nations.
Rivera has reintroduced the restrictions on university trips into the Florida House education budget, currently under debate.
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