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 ...

Democrats likened the move to dump “proven” fluoride from the water supply to “anti-vax” theories, but the argument didn’t ...

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 ...

Development such as golf courses, pickleball courts and luxury lodges would be prohibited at Florida state parks under ... which now goes to the Senate, where a similar bill is moving through ...

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 ...

A proposed cellphone ban in Florida’s public schools took a major ... HB 949 now heads to the state Senate, where its prospects are less certain. With no similar bill currently advancing through ...

Florida lawmakers are considering a bill requiring all private businesses to use E-Verify to check employee immigration status. A separate, stricter Senate bill with bipartisan support has stalled ...

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 ...