Senate Panel To Consider Bill On Same-Sex Adoption
A Senate committee is set to take up a controversial House bill that would let private adoption agencies refuse to let same-sex couples adopt.
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A Senate committee is set to take up a controversial House bill that would let private adoption agencies refuse to let same-sex couples adopt.
A Senate bill that would allow school superintendents to tap employees or volunteers to carry concealed weapons on school property was effectively killed by a committee Wednesday, meaning that two high-profile proposals blending firearms and education could fail during the legislative session.
Senators raised questions Wednesday about how Gov. Rick Scott's administration has handled negotiations with the federal government over billions of dollars in health-care funding that has thrown the state budget process into disorder.
Disputing reports that state agencies are prohibited from using the words "climate change," top environmental official Jonathan Steverson repeatedly uttered the phrase during a confirmation hearing Wednesday.
Ending weeks of speculation, Republican legislative leaders Wednesday acknowledged they won't be able to wrap up budget negotiations before the scheduled May 1 end of the 2015 session.
U.S. and Cuba are set to talk about two of America's most wanted fugitives now that Cuba has been taken off the state sponsors of terrorism list, the State Department announced Wednesday.
The Florida Supreme Court this week declined to hear an appeal in a potentially far-reaching case about the way local governments administer red-light camera programs.
A Florida doctor, charged in a political corruption case involving a New Jersey Senator, will remain behind bars.
Cuba is being removed from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday, prompting backlash from a South Florida Republican and presidential candidate.
A Florida doctor, tied to a criminal investigation involving a New Jersey Senator indicted for Medicare fraud, has also been indicted.
Florida health officials want Florida's Medicaid program to be expanded before they grant Florida Governor Rick Scott's push for funding to help hospitals treat low-income patients.
After an impassioned debate, the Florida Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would restore a popular adoption-subsidies program --- while repealing a 38-year-old law that banned gay adoption.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio's big announcement that he will run for the presidency in 2016 made headline news across the state and the nation.
Three-year-old Dinah is the latest face joining the entourage pushing for medical marijuana in Florida, arriving on the scene just as the Senate is poised to broaden the state's non-euphoric cannabis law approved last year.
The House is expected to take up a bill Wednesday that would lead to online voter registration in Florida.
