From Budget To Vaping, New Florida Laws Take Effect
Florida's record $90.98 billion spending plan for next fiscal year and more than 100 new laws will hit the books Monday.
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Florida's record $90.98 billion spending plan for next fiscal year and more than 100 new laws will hit the books Monday.
Shortly after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an omnibus elections bill Friday, a coalition of voting-rights and civil-rights groups announced they had filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state's plan for carrying out a constitutional amendment designed to restore felons' voting rights.
Florida's record $90.98 billion spending plan for next fiscal year and more than 100 new laws will hit the books Monday.
A 36-year-old Florida bank employee has been sentenced to 23 months in federal prison for stealing more than $171,000 from a customer.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed 15 bills, including a measure that allows needle-exchange programs across the state and a plan to help curb human trafficking.
Continuing a flurry of activity before the end of the month, the Legislature on Wednesday sent a dozen bills to Gov. Ron DeSantis, including proposals that would toughen human-trafficking laws and create a new expressway agency in Miami-Dade County.
Police said a young girl drowned Tuesday in a lake near her family home in Coconut Creek.
An agricultural hemp program will be established in Florida under a bill signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday formally received a bill that could lead to an expansion of underground power lines in Florida, with supporters touting the measure as a way to help reduce electricity outages after hurricanes.
With 77 cases added last week, Florida has reported nearly three times as many cases of hepatitis A in 2019 as it did in all of last year.
Florida's suspended top financial regulator, in a lawsuit alleging he is the victim of "pay to play --- or else" politics, contends state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis is running a "powerful but corrupt enterprise."
Florida's new surgeon general has negotiated an unusual two-year arrangement that allows him to remain employed at the University of Florida --- and keep his tenured position --- while also being in charge of the state Department of Health.
State leaders and powerful business groups are trying to kill a proposed constitutional amendment that would lead to major changes in the way Floridians get electricity.
Florida's unemployment rate for May showed a slight drop from revised April numbers.
A move to eliminate a 90-day Medicaid retroactive eligibility period will continue for at least another year.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a budget-related bill that could lead to changes in a long-controversial formula for divvying up money among school districts.
Gov. Ron DeSantis used his line-item veto power to slash more than $131 million in proposed spending Friday as he signed a record $90.98 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
A judge has rejected a constitutional challenge to Florida's insanity defense law made by the attorneys for a man accused of killing a couple and chewing the husband's face.
Four aviation companies on Thursday submitted proposals to the state for aircraft to fly Gov. Ron DeSantis throughout Florida.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Thursday an initiative between the state and Sarasota-based Mote Marine Laboratory that includes $3 million a year for the next five years to research the causes and impacts of red tide.
ackling Florida's disastrous red tide is something Governor Ron DeSantis takes seriously and Thursday he signed a bill which creates a private partnership to research how to control and alleviate red tide blooms.
Saying courts across the country are "struggling to find common legal ground" on the issue, a divided Florida appeals court Thursday sided with a criminal defendant who fought turning over his cell-phone passcode to police.
Scientists are puzzled by a disturbing trend in the waters along four Gulf Coast states.
One of the most trusted polls for measuring public opinion has former Vice President Joseph Biden leading President Donald Trump in Florida.
A West Palm Beach church and its two pastors should be prepared to return $2 million in donations they received from a parishioner who stole the money in a Ponzi scheme, a federal judge ruled.
