Representative Leonard Bembry Receives Significant Committee Assignments in the House

TALLAHASSEE, FL – State Representative Leonard Bembry (D-Greenville) has been appointed to the House Appropriations Committee, which produces the House’s proposed budget in conforming and implementing legislation, for a second year.  The committee provides legislative oversight regarding agency and judiciary implementation of the budget, and also reviews the Governors budget recommendations, agency legislative budget request, and analyzes trust funds.  Additionally, legislation with a fiscal impact is typically heard by the House Appropriations Committee, or one of its respective subcommittees. 

Bembry was again appointed to the House State Affairs Committee that considers matters relating to the oversight and use of state resources, including issues relating to Florida’s agriculture and citrus industries, environmental protection, conservation of Florida’s natural resources, energy, utilities and telecommunications regulations, state agency governance, ethics and elections, and state/federal relations.  Rep. Bembry’s other appointments include Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee, Select Committee on Water Policy, and K-20 Innovation Education Subcommittee.

“I’ve been blessed to be able to have first-hand knowledge and a strong background in agriculture, which enables me to have the ability to be effective through my committee assignments. I am one of a few, in the House or Senate, that has actual working knowledge “in the field” when it comes to agriculture”, stated Representative Bembry.

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