Legislature 2017

Mass shootings in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale have brought conversations about gun rights and restrictions front and center this legislative session.

After battling for years over how to make healthcare more accessible and affordable, Florida lawmakers landed on a compromise. Instead of expanding...

State lawmakers are pushing to track sentencing as a way to stamp out disparities in how penalties are doled out. But at its first hearing, the measure...

As a similar proposal emerged in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday supported a controversial bill that could help clear the way for women to file...

The Florida House is moving forward with a plan to pull out of the refugee resettlement program.

A proposal that would require unanimous jury recommendations for death sentences to be imposed sailed through its first House vetting Wednesday,...

Rejecting arguments by a chiropractor, a South Florida appeals court Wednesday upheld part of a 2012 overhaul of the state's person-injury protection...

Senator Anitere Flores has spoken out against hydraulic fracturing in Florida, voted against it and written guest editorials. But the Miami Republican...

Sugar farmers who own land in an area targeted by Senate President Joe Negron for a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee said Monday they won't be ...

Florida juries would have to unanimously agree that defendants should be condemned to death for the sentence to be imposed, under a proposal given swift...

Florida State Sen. Bill Montford, R-Tallahasee, wants to encourage college students to make a career in education. He's proposing creating a scholarship...

A Senate Republican has filed a proposal that could help clear the way for " direct primary care " agreements in Florida — an issue that received...