Gov. Scott Flip-Flops, Now Opposes Medicaid Expansion
In a flip flop from Rick Scott, the governor now says he is opposed to the state expanding Medicaid.
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In a flip flop from Rick Scott, the governor now says he is opposed to the state expanding Medicaid.
Just past the the midway point in the legislative session, Florida lawmakers have done little more than set a presidential primary date.
The Florida House and Senate are at odds over the new state budget that is vastly different on both sides.
A House bill that calls for a number of reforms at the Florida Public Service Commission, including term limits for commissioners, has cleared another hurdle.
Charter schools would get more construction funding, class-size penalties would be relaxed and school districts would be encouraged to enact dress codes under a series of education bills approved Friday by the Florida House.
Florida marched one step closer Friday to requiring American and state flags flying at government buildings to be sewn in the United States with home-grown materials.
A bill, passed by the Florida House, could ease class size limits for Florida schools.
The House and Senate budget-writing committees approved spending plans Wednesday separated by more than $4 billion, setting up weeks of negotiations over a pair of health-care measures that account for most of the differences.
The Florida House is pushing for tax breaks on cellphones, cable television and college textbooks.
House members backed Gov. Rick Scott's push to reduce taxes on cell-phone bills and pay TV on Tuesday. And they bettered the governor, by $17 million, in rolling out a $690 million tax-reduction package that offers a slew of sales-tax holidays and eliminating taxes on gun-club memberships, college textbooks, materials purchased at book fairs and vehicles purchased overseas and brought to Florida by military members.
The Florida House and Senate may soon be at odds over how to manage the state's scandal-plagued prison system.
The Florida House is expected to approve a bill Wednesday aimed at soothing parent outrage over the amount of testing in the state's public schools.
Florida lawmakers approved a bill that would give school districts extra funding for implementing a uniform policy.
The Florida House approved a plan that sets incentives for state employees who adopt foster care children.
School districts could soon start the school year earlier as the Florida House is moving a bill that would allow such a change.
Supporters of a bill passed by the Florida House say it will help clean and protect the state's waterways while planning for increased water demand in the future.
House members began moving forward Wednesday with a renewed effort to approve a pilot needle-exchange program in Miami-Dade County.
With the start of Florida's legislative session looming, one of the first issues to be taken up will be new rules on the state's waters.
A Florida House panel on Tuesday heard details on a report about a 5-year old whose father is accused of throwing her off a bridge in Tampa.
A House Republican wants to bolster the authority of the Florida Department of Health in trying to prevent the spread of communicable diseases during public-health emergencies.
Pointing to concerns about a "chilling effect" on investigations, a House Republican proposed a bill Wednesday that would prevent the release of audio or video recordings made by law-enforcement officers in many cases.
Move over Black Friday. A freshman House Republican filed a proposal Wednesday that would create a sales-tax holiday on November 28th for many small businesses in Florida.
A House panel is expected to take up a bill that would allow people with concealed-weapons licenses to carry guns on the campuses of state colleges and universities.
The already-conservative Florida House will lean even more to the right the next two years.
