The slow and interrupted pace of the past two months of Florida legislative committee meetings yielded an avalanche of bills in the last two weeks prior to this past Friday’s filing deadline, including several shocking bills that …
Governor DeSantis has released his proposed 2025-2026 state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 and it includes added funding for disaster mitigation and recovery programs, as well as insurance regulation. …
The Florida Legislature met at the Capitol last week for its organization session with many newly-elected members. The state’s property insurance market was a prominent theme in speeches by the two new leaders of the Florida …
It has been a pleasure to write to you every week and share the 2024 Florida legislative happenings. We started this session nine weeks ago with high hopes that we would see …
This past week in the legislature has been an emotional week with legislators discussing bills that dealt with the Florida Dozier School for …
We have just two weeks remaining before the Florida legislative session’s scheduled conclusion on March 8. The budget negotiations between the two chambers will be in high gear and …
With three weeks of Session left there are 711 general bills that have not been heard in any of their committees. For those of you that are students of …
Last week marked the halfway point of Session and the last time House subcommittees will meet this year. Bills that have not moved through one committee, or do not …
We are at the midway point now of the Florida Legislature’s nine-week session! I have had lots of you call and write to ask how you can help. That …
Last week (Week 3 of Session) kicked off with a noticeable uptick in the number of committee meetings and bills heard in those committees as legislators are diving into …
