Adoption

Adoption agencies receiving taxpayer funds could discriminate as they wish Bill is proposed soon after state House voted to increase payments to private agencies.

House bill would remove unconstitutional adoption ban from Florida law The Florida House of Representatives voted Wednesday to remove a statutory ban on lesbian and gay parents that was enacted in 1977 but declared unconstitutional by a state appeals court in 2010. Since then, state officials have declined to enforce the ban, but it has remained in Florida Statutes.