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Florida Legislature to return in about a week to pass a balanced budget
Senate President Ben Albritton announced that lawmakers will take the next week off, with hopes that a budget conference will ...
Session derailed by dollar divides, deep distrust, then late-hour deal emerged
The 2025 legislative session unraveled amid an increasingly tense House-Senate clash over a massive tax-break package, a $4.4 ...
Divided over budget and tax cuts, Florida Legislature heads to OT with next step TBD
With the Florida Legislature headed into overtime, House and Senate leaders said they’re hitting the pause button.
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Rural Renaissance among bills to be considered in extended Legislative Session
A House resolution calling for Session to be extended to June 6 called for 16 bills to remain under consideration. That ...
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Florida lawmakers will take next week off as budget negotiations falter
The 60-day legislative is ending without a proposed spending plan for the next fiscal year. A budget must be approved by the ...
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Senate rejects House’s blending of unrelated attorneys fees, phosphate disclosure bills
Davie Democratic Rep. Mike Gottlieb argued against combining HB 947 and SB 832, sponsored in the House by Republican Reps.
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Ben Albritton says bill to lower minimum wage is dead
Senate President Ben Albritton said a controversial bill that sought to pay some workers below the minimum wage is dead. “To ...
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Ben Albritton: Stalemate between House, Senate on tax cuts guarantees Session overtime
Senate President Ben Albritton said budget leaders in the upper chamber still cannot agree on budget allocations with the ...
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Minimum wage and property insurance changes not likely to pass Legislature
A proposal to carve an exemption in the state’s voter-approved minimum wage isn’t expected to pass during this year’s legislative session, Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula ...