Legislation & Lobbying
Lawyer’s Son, 11, Gets Florida Food-Donation Bill Enacted
Posted Apr 22, 2008, 02:50 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A 6th-grader from Miami met with Gov. Charlie Crist today after he successfully lobbied to have the Florida state legislature pass a law allowing restaurants to donate unused food to the homeless.
Jack Davis, 11, the son of personal injury attorney Jeffrey Davis, admits that "a bunch of connections" helped him find legislators in the state house and senate to sponsor a bill protecting restaurants from liability for donating leftover food to homeless shelters, reports the the Buzz, a St. Petersburg Times political blog. For starters, the young lobbyist says, Miami trial attorney Steve Marino was a big help to him in getting his idea enacted.
The bill was amended to be named after Jack Davis at the suggestion of Arthenia Joyner, a state senator from Tampa, the newspaper notes. "This will be good for kids to know their ideas can become laws," she says.
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