DeSantis, whose endorsement by Trump helped boost him to victory in November, said the state will continue to push for additional funds for the Everglades Agricultural Area reservoir and for money to raise the Tamiami Trail,
“This is the bill that was passed last year in the House, exactly as it was passed, so we had bipartisan support, 112 members supported the bill,” Toledo said.
TALLAHASSEE --- A North Florida man who’s struggled with fibromyalgia for years became the state’s first patient to legally buy whole-flower cannabis for smoking Thursday, just days after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into a law a measure repealing a ban on smokable medical marijuana. Trulieve, the state’s largest medical marijuana operator, was the first of […]
An effort to make it harder for voters to approve changes to the Florida Constitution advanced along party lines Wednesday in the Senate.
Low salaries and worker shortages are a top concern in the prison system. But due to legally mandated health-care costs at prisons,
Lawmakers met the deadline, with the House giving final approval Wednesday.
In the highest-profile insurance issue of the legislative session, a Senate committee Monday approved an overhaul of the controversial insurance practice known as “assignment of benefits.”
The Senate is moving forward with a bill that would ban so-called sanctuary cities.
An estimated 560,000 people have Alzheimer’s disease in the state.
The utility said in the filing that more than 200 of its largest energy users have committed to participate in the program, which would be open to residential, business and government customers.
The Rules Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved the measure (SB 160) focused on “obscene or lewd materials,
Both programs would need approval from the federal government before they could be implemented.
udge John Van Laningham sided with Renaissance Charter School Inc., which operates six schools in Palm Beach County and wanted the School Board to provide “safe school” officers. The School Board refused, leading to the legal battle.
Under the proposal, which is backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody, both of them Republicans, the state would ban local governments from passing ordinances that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Following the governor’s lead, the state Senate is moving forward with a proposal that would require state and local law-enforcement agencies to “use best efforts to support the enforcement of federal immigration law.”
The proposal by Sen. Ed Hooper, R-Clearwater, would allow paramedics and other medical professionals, which he called “SWAT medics,” to be armed while accompanying law enforcement in “hostage incidents, narcotics raids, hazardous surveillance,
Backers of proposed constitutional amendments must submit at least 76,632 signatures to trigger Supreme Court reviews of ballot wording, a crucial initial step in the amendment process
Israel, a Democrat, appealed his suspension to the Florida Senate, which has the authority to reinstate or remove elected officials. That appeal remains pending.
