2017 Legislative session

This Saturday more than 100 new laws go into effect in Florida. Here's a look at five.

Ride-for-hire services like Lyft and Uber will have to comply with statewide rules, and religious expression at public schools will be explicitly...

It took an extension to the regular session and a special session on top of that to finally get a state spending plan for the new fiscal year, but the...

Next week's special legislative session focused on funding for education and economic development won't include medical marijuana, at least for now.

Governor Rick Scott says he will veto the legislature’s education funding proposal, sending lawmakers back to the drawing board in a special session...

After state lawmakers failed to act, health officials on Thursday laid out a framework for adopting regulations required by a voter-approved...

The Florida Legislature has passed its budget and gone home. But the manner in which lawmakers closed out this year’s session raises a number of...

Amid growing demands for a special session on medical marijuana and harsh criticism of lawmakers' failure to reach agreement on the issue, Senate...

It took them three days longer than it was supposed to, but Florida lawmakers have finally passed a new state budget.This week on Florida Matters we’ll…

It took them three days longer than it was supposed to, but Florida lawmakers have finally passed a new state budget.This week on Florida Matters we’ll…

State lawmakers finally signed off on a new state budget Monday night after a bit of a delay.This week on Florida Matters we’ll take a look at what’s in…

State lawmakers finally signed off on a new state budget Monday night after a bit of a delay.This week on Florida Matters we’ll take a look at what’s in…