Representative Gallop Franklin (D-Tallahassee) received his first committee assignments as a newly elected State Representative. Representative Franklin was assigned to: Education & Employment Committee; Education Quality Subcommittee; Insurance & Banking Subcommittee, Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; Health Care Regulation Subcommittee; and Select Committee on Hurricane Resiliency & Recovery.
Representative Franklin stated: “As a newly-elected House Representative, I am pleased to be assigned to these diverse committees, as I will be able to influence legislation in the important areas of insurance, banking, education, and healthcare. I am excited to sit on the Health Care Regulation Subcommittee, which will consider a wide variety of issues responding to the changing demands of the state’s public health programs, long-term care facilities, acute-care hospitals, pharmacies and other health-care services. I look forward to addressing complex challenges, working with the members of the committees I have been assigned, and being a voice for the residents of Gadsden and Leon counties.”