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TALLAHASSEE — As the 2025 legislative session enters its final weeks, the Florida House and Senate are divided about a series of potentially high-stakes issues involving personal-injury and ...
The Republican-led Florida Senate approved a farm bill that would ban adding fluoride to public water systems. The House ...
If Florida passes a ban, it would follow the lead of Utah, another Republican-controlled state that approved such a measure ...
The House and Senate agree on some issues, such as continuing to spend $80 million next year on the tourist-marketing agency Visit Florida. But they differ in other areas, such as the Senate ...
But in voting against the Senate bill, Sen. Mack Bernard, D-West Palm Beach, joined a group of Florida State University students in expressing concerns about the hunting-related tax holiday ...
“Bad actors have undermined and corrupted” the ballot-initiative process, Gaetz, a former Senate president, said. “There’s one stain on Florida’s election integrity, and it’s deep and it’s broad and ...
Orlando Democratic Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith notes that the inflation rate in Florida is higher than the proposed increase per student in the Senate budget. He says traditional public schools ...
The measure (SB 700), approved along party lines by the Republican-controlled Senate Fiscal Policy Committee on Tuesday, in part revises the definition of “water quality additive.” The bills come amid ...
Three more of Gov. Ron DeSantis' picks for the University of West Florida board of Trustees will face confirmation hearings on Thursday before a Florida Senate committee. Gates Garcia, Paul Bailey ...
Florida’s elected officials have tried in the past to make E-Verify mandatory for every business in the state, but have failed at every attempt. But maybe not this year. This year, a bill in the ...