2018 Florida Legislature

The lawmakers voted 71-36 against opening up debate on the bill that would ban assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, leaving it in committees that aren't scheduled to meet during this session.

The U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall Collection is on the cusp of receiving its first statue of an African-American woman. The Florida Legislature has sent a…

As lawmakers consider proposals to limit opioid prescriptions, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is taking steps to do the same in the Florida Medicaid...

Pornography is being declared a health risk by the Florida Legislature. The state's House of Representatives approved the resolution by a voice vote...

Students who survived the Parkland school shooting prepared to flood the Capitol on Wednesday , pushing to ban the assault-style rifle used to kill 17...

Florida lawmakers are once again looking for ways to help the sunshine state reclaim its title as the Hollywood of the South.

A key Florida Senate committee has stripped language from an omnibus education bill that threatened the survival of the state’s teachers unions. Critics...

Cannabis Advocates and Representative Carlos Guillermo-Smith want to re-classify misdemeanor criminal offenses for marijuana possession. It would make...

A second gun-related bill has been postponed in the Florida Senate in the wake of last week’s mass shooting at a Parkland high school.

State lawmakers are facing renewed pressure to pass gun control legislation following last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School...

"When it comes to school violence, it's not a matter of if, but when."That was the first line of an opinion column published in the Tallahassee Democrat…

Despite high graduation rates and increases in awarded degrees, a bill in the Senate looks to give Florida’s Community College System a governing...