The cruise industry, though, had been shut down for more than a year when DeSantis signed the bill, even as the state’s economy rebounded. Florida’s unemployment rate has dropped to 4.9% as of May, down from the COVID-19 pandemic peak of 14.2% in May 2020. And major business groups like the Florida Retail and Lodging Association and the Florida Retail Federation supported the plastic straw ban bill, too, but he vetoed it anyway.