Budget Chiefs To Resume Negotiations
Senate and House officials will resume budget negotiations after a quiet Wednesday.
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Senate and House officials will resume budget negotiations after a quiet Wednesday.
Florida Governor Rick Scott signed 55 bills into law including one that could means savings for customers of Duke Energy Florida.
A federal judge denied Florida Governor Rick Scott's request for mediation with Obama administration officials over hospital funding.
Under a new Florida law, starting July, it will be mandatory for women to wait 24 hours before having an abortion.
While slicing and dicing other areas of the budget, lawmakers plan to boost the state's spending on prisons by $43 million to address needs such as replacing vehicles and fixing leaky roofs and to wipe out a years-long deficit.
A number of budget issues moved up the legislative ladder Tuesday, prompting the next round of talks meant to resolve the difference between the House and Senate spending plans.
Florida Governor Rick Scott and Georgia Governor Nathan Deal met to discuss a longstanding water dispute that has been taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the battle over federal hospital funds, the Obama administration says no mediation is needed despite Florida Governor Rick Scott's request for it.
A House panel on Tuesday approved a proposal that would eliminate key regulations when it comes to building hospitals.
The state's Department of Citrus proposal to set up a federal orange juice marketing program has come under scrutiny.
While he has not officially announced that he'll run for president next year, former state Governor Jeb Bush has warned Russia's Vladimir Putin that, if elected, his presidency would mean a more active U.S. role in countering Russian aggression.
Local governments would be prohibited from crafting new rules while the state studies the "potential positive" impacts of Uber and other transportation network services, under a provision added to the criminal and civil-justice portion of the budget Monday.
Even as a flare-up in negotiations on economic-development spending demonstrated simmering tensions between the House and Senate, lawmakers continued Monday to try to come to agreement in two areas that helped spark an ongoing special session: funding for health care and environmental projects.
House and Senate budget writers have agreed on a potential solution to a long-running dispute between the state and counties about who pays to lock up juvenile offenders.
The state last month removed about 2,000 children from a specialized program that provides services to medically fragile kids, finding that they were no longer "clinically eligible" under a new screening process.
