Florida Senate budget proposal seeks $200 million to help citrus industry
The Senate on Friday released a proposed $117.36 billion budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year that includes $200 million ...
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Florida lawmakers start refining state budget plans, propose tax cuts
A House committee unanimously moved a proposal that would permanently cut the state sales tax Wednesday morning ...
Senate president, a grower, wants to help Florida's ailing citrus industry
The industry is seeking $125 million for new tree plantings to replace those ravaged by greening. Ben Albritton says that ...
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Companion Decoupling Bill Passes Florida Senate Committee 5-2
The bill is similar but different from the decoupling bill that passed two committees in the Florida House of Representatives ...
Florida Senate bill aims to restore public beach access, reversing 2018 privatization law
Private beaches may become a thing of the past in Florida soon.A bill to overturn a 2018 law made it one step closer to the ...
Florida Senate bill would change high school graduation, third grade reading test rules
Florida Senate Bill 166 would end the requirement that students pass the Algebra 1 and English/language arts assessments in ...
Florida wildlife agency chair defends his record at Senate confirmation hearing
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation (FWC) Commissioner Rodney Barreto told a Senate committee Monday he has no idea why a ...
Florida House, Senate release budgets with $4.4 billion gap between them
The Florida House and Senate released budget proposals Friday that could leave negotiators faced with ironing out a $4.4 ...
Florida House proposes sales tax cut, ends 16-year tradition of tax holidays
DeSantis also proposed a "Second Amendment Summer" sales-tax holiday between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July that would temporarily remove sales taxes on ammunition, firearms and related items.
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Florida House pushes for major sales tax cut amid Republican infighting
Despite resistance from prominent Republicans, the Florida House is pushing ahead with a proposal to reduce the state’s sales ...
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Campaign mailers inundate Republican voters as special GOP Senate, House primaries approach
The elections are being held to fill vacancies for Florida House District 32 and Florida Senate District 19. Some of the campaign mailers have been negative attack ads, with allegations the ...
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Florida Senate undoes late school start times law, leaving it up to local officials to decide when school days begin
But two years later, with a 2026 deadline looming for school districts to comply, the Florida Senate on Thursday ...