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Florida News Archive

Apr 8, 2025

State parks bill advances in house

Tallahassee – A bill aimed at preventing a return of efforts to build golf courses, pickleball courts and resorts in state parks is ready to go to the full Florida House.
Apr 7, 2025

State appeals in Chinese students case

Tallahassee – Florida has appealed after a federal judge sided with two Chinese graduate students in a battle about a 2023 law that seeks to restrict ties between state universities and colleges and China.
Apr 4, 2025

House cracks down on ballot initiatives

Tallahassee – Building on a years-long effort to make it harder to change the state Constitution, the Florida House on Thursday approved a controversial measure that would impose new requirements on the ballot-initiative process and increase penalties for wrongdoing.
Apr 3, 2025

Senate targets ‘high stakes’ testing

Tallahassee – The Florida Senate on Apr. 3 passed a wide-ranging education bill that includes eliminating a requirement that high-school students pass algebra and language-arts tests to earn standard diplomas.
Apr 2, 2025

House plan scuttles tax ‘holidays’

Tallahassee – For the first time in 16 years, the state wouldn’t offer sales-tax “holidays” under a House proposal that calls for an overall cut in sales taxes.
Apr 1, 2025

E-Verify expansion gets house support

Tallahassee – A proposal that would require small businesses to use the federal E-Verify system to check the immigration status of newly hired workers started moving forward Apr. 1 in the House.
Mar 31, 2025

THC beverages targeted in hemp bills

Tallahassee – A year after Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill on the issue, lawmakers again are considering proposals aimed at imposing strict regulations on the sale and production of euphoria-inducing hemp products.
Mar 31, 2025

DeSantis pushes back on sales tax proposal

Tallahassee – Gov. Ron DeSantis on Mar. 31 argued Floridians aren’t “clamoring” for a sales-tax cut as House Speaker Daniel Perez proposed last week and said they would prefer reducing homeowners’ property taxes.
Mar 28, 2025

House panel takes aim at agency head

Tallahassee – Saying the Florida Department of Management Services’ “fiscal house is completely out of order,” a House budget leader Mar. 27 excoriated the head of the agency and threatened to zero out his salary as lawmakers prepare to begin budget negotiations.
Mar 27, 2025

House speaker calls for sales-tax cut

Tallahassee – House Speaker Daniel Perez said Mar. 26 he wants to lower the state’s sales-tax rate, trimming revenue by almost $5 billion a year.

Perez, R-Miami, told House members he has directed Ways & Means Chairman Wyman Duggan, R-Jacksonville, to produce a bill next week that would lower the rate from 6 percent to 5.25 percent.

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