State Jobless Figures Show Slight Drop
Florida's unemployment rate for February was virtually unchanged from the previous month.
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Florida's unemployment rate for February was virtually unchanged from the previous month.
Florida Governor Rick Scott's political committee for "Let's Get to Work"raised more than $700,000 this month, according to a list of contributions on the committee's website.
A number of Senators are pushing for more than $2 million proposed for the use of land purchases as part of the Florida Forever program.
Following the lead of Gov. Rick Scott, a House panel Wednesday approved a bill designed to help hold down costs for students at state colleges and universities.
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.
A measure aimed at making college textbooks more affordable gained unanimous approval from a Senate committee Monday, but only after lawmakers stripped out one provision of the bill and a faculty representative pointed out potential problems with another.
As the House and Senate move forward with their budget plans this week, Gov. Rick Scott is trying to ramp up support for his proposed tax cuts.
As the House and Senate prepare to hammer out a $4.2 billion divide in budget proposals released last week, they have plenty of hometown pork to barter.
Florida NRA leader Marion Hammer is accusing campus police chiefs from Florida's public universities of using tax dollars to lobby because they spoke in Tallahassee against a bill allowing guns on campuses.
An environmental group wants Florida's inspector general to check out reports of an unwritten policy prohibiting state agencies from using the terms "climate change" and "global warming."
The Florida House on Friday released a nearly $76.3 billion dollar spending plan for this year.
The Sunshine State is moving the date of its presidential primary election.
Two previously opposing sides have joined forces for a major overhaul of Florida's alimony laws.
The numbers are in—Florida's unemployment rate is staying flat.
House budget writers unveiled an education spending plan Monday that would provide public schools with almost $47 less per student than Gov. Rick Scott proposed, and a key senator said his chamber was also unlikely to meet the governor's number when a Senate blueprint is released Tuesday.
Lawmakers continued to charge forward Monday with Gov. Rick Scott's ambitious proposal to cut taxes on cable-television and cell-phone services knowing the final savings may be smaller.
If the House and Senate can't find common ground on water policy in the next 50 days, then they'll try again next year, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli said this week.
A trio of agency heads whose necks have been on the governor's chopping block earned a couple of extra months stay on Tuesday.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has denied allegations from a report that made national headlines this week with claims that his administration banned use of the terms "climate change" and "global warming" in official documents and speeches.
A House panel rejected a proposal to revamp the Medicaid program's system of providing dental services to children.
A bill that would make clear national groups like the Boys and Girls Clubs are exempt from Florida licensing requirements is stalled in a legislative committee, sparking a clash between two state senators.
A House committee that crafted a newly approved water-policy plan is now looking at how a voter-approved increase in conservation dollars should be used for land management.
House and Senate committees this week backed proposals aimed at helping stop potential drug overdoses.
Florida lawmakers are considering proposals that would allow most school districts to start classes earlier in August.
