An audience filled the Polk County Commission chambers for the annual meeting with legislators, just days before the session ...
Next week, a Florida Senate committee will take up a bill that would make changes to the state’s child welfare system.
SPB 7012 is being proposed by the Senate Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs. Sen. Erin Grall, a Vero Beach ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis faces a newly skeptical Legislature as the state confronts property insurance and other issues in ...
The legislation, Senate Bill 168, also known as the Tristin Murphy Act​, was named after the 37-year-old father of two who killed himself in prison with a chainsaw.
A newly proposed bill would allow those being held in criminal custody to be diverted to mental health treatment while behind ...
Under the leadership of Senate President Ben Albritton and House Speaker Danny Perez, the Florida Legislature is considering ...
Florida Senate President Ben Albritton calls it the “fight for a rural renaissance in Florida.” And Wednesday, the Senate ...
In recent years, ambitions were largely dictated by the top-down priorities of DeSantis and prior legislative leaders.