Florida cities, public agencies, universities, and other covered entities have less than a month to comply with a new foreign-interference law that takes effect July 1, ending covered sister-city agreements with foreign countries of concern and removing the Florida-China Linkage Institute from state law.
The measure, HB 905, formally titled the Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement Act, was approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 8.
The law applies to a statutory list of “foreign countries of concern”: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, the Maduro regime in Venezuela, and Syria.
While the law is not limited to China, two of its most direct China provisions remove the Florida-China institute from the state’s linkage-institute system and require ethics training to include known efforts by foreign countries of concern to influence subnational governments, including the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) United Front strategy….
Florida Foreign-Interference Law Set to Take Effect July 1, Ending China Linkage Institute
