DeSantis Dissolves Reedy Creek District
Local News Staff 
Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature's have moved to start the clock on dissolving a special self-governance district created for The Walt Disney Co. in 1967.
DeSantis and members of the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature targeted Disney for the company's opposition to the "Parental Rights in Education Act" that legislators approved and DeSantis signed into law.
Among other provisions, the law limits instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation in grades K-3.
The two-page bill affecting Reedy Creek doesn't specifically mention Disney or Reedy Creek. But it calls for dissolving independent special districts established before Nov. 5, 1968, and "not reestablished, re-ratified or otherwise reconstituted by a special act or general law" after then.
Reedy Creek — as well as development authorities in Bradford and Hamilton counties, water districts in Broward and Franklin counties, and a Marion County law library — would be affected, according to a bill analysis by the staff of the Senate Committee on Community Affairs. That analysis said Florida's 1,222 other independent special districts would not be affected.
