Florida Lawmakers Weigh Medicaid Work Requirements
Florida lawmakers are considering requiring an estimated 500,000 Medicaid beneficiaries to work or show they are trying to get jobs to keep their health-care benefits.
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Florida lawmakers are considering requiring an estimated 500,000 Medicaid beneficiaries to work or show they are trying to get jobs to keep their health-care benefits.
Backers of a constitutional amendment that restores the right to vote for felons continued to wrangle Tuesday with state lawmakers over legislation aimed at carrying out the measure.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Tuesday his first international excursion on behalf of the state will begin May 25, as he makes a previously announced trip to Israel after the legislative session.
Senate panel moved forward Tuesday with a proposal that would direct $3 million a year to a red-tide research initiative.
Housing vouchers allowing hundreds of Florida residents affected by Hurricane Michael to stay at hotels after the Category 4 storm have expired.
Everyone agrees a constitutional amendment that appeared on the November ballot was designed to automatically restore the right to vote for some of Florida's convicted felons.
After rallying and testimony from numerous activists on both sides of the issue, a Senate panel Monday approved a proposal that would require minors to receive parental consent before having abortions.
A Burmese python, captured in the Florida Everglades sets a new record for the largest python ever removed from Big Cypress National Preserve.
Casey Michael Lewis was a free man for about 15 minutes, not even leaving the grounds of the jail where he'd been locked up before being arrested again.
Miss Costa, a huge Great White shark with a sizeable social media following is back off the coast of Florida, working her way around the peninsula and now into the Gulf of Mexico.
At the request of Gov. Ron DeSantis, a legislative plan would allow Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez to be headquartered in Miami, where she resides, and use public dollars to go back and forth to Tallahassee.
A series of proposed tax breaks, from exemptions on baby and adult diapers to creating a tax "holiday" for back-to-school items, advanced Thursday in the Senate and could end up as part of negotiations with the House.
A proposal that would make it easier for police to cite motorists they see texting while driving is ready to be heard by the full House.
The Florida Senate has passed a $90.3 billion budget plan for next fiscal year while the House began work on its version that is about $400 million less.
People who injure or kill dogs or horses that work with police officers and other first responders would face stiffer penalties, under a measure unanimously approved Wednesday by the Florida Senate.
Selling or showing child-like sex dolls would be a crime in Florida, under a measure unanimously approved Wednesday by the state Senate.
Veterans would get free medical-marijuana identification cards, the level of THC would be capped in weed for smoking, and it would be harder for sick children to get full-strength medical pot, under a House proposal slated for its first vetting Wednesday.
The Senate Education Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a proposal that would require school districts to install filters on such things as drinking fountains in schools built before 1986.
Love is in the air, if you're an alligator.
After hurricanes during the past three years knocked out electricity for millions of Floridians, lawmakers are moving forward with regulatory changes that could lead to more underground power lines.
A wedding ceremony that has gone viral is something that you'd see only in Florida.
Florida Lottery officials say they don't anticipate problems as a multimillion-dollar upgrade of a vending system goes into place this month.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday named a top University of Florida doctor and professor as the state's next surgeon general.
Changes may be coming in Florida, ones that could make a big difference to people who desperately need it.
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is sponsoring legislation aimed at lowering the costs of prescription drugs and has included price controls as part of his proposal.
