With Miami Republican Rep. Vicki Lopez vacating her House District 113 seat for a post on the Miami-Dade County Commission, the House is undergoing a minor bit of musical chairs.

In a memo to House Clerk Jeff Takacs , Speaker Daniel Perez made two changes to the chamber’s committee assignments.

In the House State Administration Budget Subcommittee , a new panel Lopez has led since December , the Speaker elevated Dade City Republican Rep. Randy Maggard as Chair.

Perez kept St. Pete Beach Republican Rep. Linda Chaney as the subcommittee’s Vice Chair.

In the Select Committee on Property Taxes, which Lopez co-chaired with Palm City Republican Rep. Toby Overdorf , Perez named Overdorf the panel’s lone Chair, with Republican Rep. Dean Black of Jacksonville s

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