page_title: Dan Gelber
section_title: Legislative record
hierarchical_section_title: Dan Gelber / Legislative record
caption_attribution_description: English: Rep. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, center, makes a point in a news conference about the Prescription Drugs for Seniors Bill during the 2003 Legislature - Tallahassee, Florida Personal Subject Gannon, Annie, 1947- Gottlieb, Ken, 1963- Kyle, Bruce, 1969- Rich, Nan H., 1942- Gelber, Dan, 1960- Kendrick, Will S., 1960- Rubio, Marco, 1971-
context_page_description: Daniel Saul Gelber is an American politician, ex-prosecutor, and the current mayor of Miami Beach, Florida. He served in the Florida Legislature from 2000 to 2010 and was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Florida in 2010.
  Gelber represented the 106th district in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008, also serving as House Minority Leader in his last term. He then served in the Florida Senate, representing the 35th district from 2008 to 2010. He ran for Attorney General of Florida in 2010, losing the general election to Republican Pam Bondi. In 2012, he co-founded the law firm of Gelber Schachter & Greenberg, P.A. along with Adam Schachter and Gerald Greenberg. The firm handles complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense cases in Florida and across the country.
  Gelber was reelected mayor, without opposition, on September 6, 2019, after no other candidate qualified to challenge him by the filing deadline. His second term begins in November 2019 and is slated to end in 2021.
context_section_description: Gelber has worked to increase fairness in the Florida tax code. In 2009, Gelber sponsored and helped pass a bill that closed a real estate loophole that allowed high end developers to evade taxes. He also worked to stop multistate corporations from avoiding Florida taxes.
  Gelber is critical of recent budget cuts that leave Florida last in per student spending. He has fought spending cuts to the state university system. He is also a vocal critic of the FCAT, believing that "[y]ou shouldn't have a school system where the ceiling is the floor."
  Drawing on his experience prosecuting corruption as a US Attorney, Gelber has been active in cleaning up government. Sen. Gelber sponsored a bill that provides criminal penalties for official misconduct, criminal misuse of official position and bid tampering. This bill passed in HB 847 and was signed into law.
caption: Gelber makes a point in a news conference about the Prescription Drugs for Seniors Bill during the 2003 Legislature
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