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Florida News Archive

Feb 24, 2025

10 legislative issues to watch

Tallahassee – Florida lawmakers next week will start the annual legislative session, which will include considering hundreds of bills. Here are 10 issues to watch during the 60-day session:
Feb 21, 2025

Ports eye improvements to aid supply chains

Tallahassee – Florida port leaders continue to point to supply-chain problems in recent years as they push lawmakers to increase transportation infrastructure funding.
Feb 20, 2025

Senate unveils ‘rural renaissance’ plan

Tallahassee – Senate President Ben Albritton calls it the “fight for a rural renaissance in Florida.”

And Feb. 19, the Senate released a 129-page bill that would take steps to try to bolster health care, education, roads and economic development in 31 counties that, in many cases, have not experienced the same booming growth as other parts of Florida.

Feb 19, 2025

House eyes lawsuit limits

Tallahassee – Florida House members Feb. 19 began moving forward with a proposal that would raise limits on payments by state agencies, local governments, school districts and public hospitals in lawsuits over people getting injured.
Feb 18, 2025

‘Welcome mat’ rolling out for Trump library

Tallahassee – A proposal that would block local government oversight of the construction and management of an anticipated presidential library in Florida for President Donald Trump cleared its first Senate committee Feb. 18.
Feb 17, 2025

Uthmeier takes reins as Attorney General

Tallahassee – With Gov. Ron DeSantis describing him as a “bulldog,” James Uthmeier was elevated Monday to become Florida attorney general after serving as the governor’s chief of staff.
Feb 14, 2025

Flood program borrows $2B after storm claims

Tallahassee – After Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton pounded Florida’s Gulf Coast last year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is borrowing $2 billion to pay National Flood Insurance Program claims.
Feb 13, 2025

Required death penalty sought in immigration plan

Tallahassee – Undocumented immigrants convicted of first-degree murder or raping children would face mandatory death sentences, under bills advanced Feb. 12 by key House and Senate committees.
Feb 12, 2025

Lawmakers target golf courses, lodges in parks

Tallahassee – After a bipartisan uproar last year about a proposal dubbed the “Great Outdoors Initiative,” the Florida Senate on Feb. 11 began moving forward with a bill that would prevent building such things as golf courses, pickleball courts and hotel-style lodges in state parks.
Feb 11, 2025

‘Gulf of America’ law changes proposed

Tallahassee – A Senate Republican on Feb. 11 filed a bill that combs through state laws and would replace references to the “Gulf of Mexico” with the “Gulf of America” after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to rename the gulf.
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