2023 Florida Legislature

Josie felt like Florida lawmakers were threatening her health care and ability to live authentically at school. So she left. Other families of trans youth are plotting their exits as well.

The bills are aimed at preventing children from attending drag shows, and keeping transgender men and women from using bathrooms that don’t line up with their sex assigned at birth. They need final approval from the Senate.

The House voted 82-31 to OK the measure, which would largely put into law rules approved by the state medical boards. While the Senate has approved the bill, the House made changes, meaning it will have to go back to the Senate for a final vote.

Lawmakers are poised to extend the Parents Rights in Education law to higher grade levels, but the education board beat them to it by expanding the rule to including Grades 4-12.

The wildlife corridor would preserve land stretching from the Everglades to Georgia and Alabama, allowing wildlife to freely migrate.

The bills passed by the House and moving through the Senate would require middle schools to start no earlier than 8 a.m. and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m. by 2026. Lawmakers say pushing back start times will allow students to get more sleep leading to better academic performance.

Under current law, you don't need a license and children as young as 14 can drive a golf cart on roads designated for their use.

They include treatments treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers, and preventing children from seeing drag shows.

The Republican-majority Florida Legislature has followed the governor's lead by introducing legislation this year to rein in DEI programs at each of the state's 12 public universities.

The Department of Economic Opportunity needs budget authorization to keep federal funds flowing to the Community Action Agencies

The Florida House and Senate will soon start ironing out their differences as they work toward a final budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

The exemption would apply whether the governor is traveling, in his office or at the governor's mansion.