News Service of Florida

The proposed priority list for grants and inspections would place low-income homeowners who are at least 60 years old at the head of the line, rather than keep the program essentially first-come, first-served.

The Florida House on Wednesday is scheduled to take up 17 bills during a floor session, including measures on the definition of antisemitism and safety in certain child-custody situations.

The bill would allow mail voting for only certain groups, such as people who would be absent from home counties, people with illnesses or disabilities that prevent them from going to polls and members of the military overseas.

The U.S. Department of Justice said it involved submitted improper claims to Medicare, Medicaid and the TRICARE military health-care program from 2024 to 2020.

It would preserve a 44-foot-wide rail corridor in the interstate’s right-of-way, and comes as Brightline considers connecting Tampa with Orlando.

Activists need fewer than 30,000 signatures by Feb. 1 to meet a requirement to place the measure on the 2024 ballot.

The bill says government agencies could not “display a flag that represents a political viewpoint, including, but not limited to, a politically partisan, racial, sexual orientation and gender, or political ideology viewpoint.”

The number of meetings is significantly less than what other previous administrations had scheduled.

Pointing to what he called “disproportionately long sentences,” President Joe Biden on Friday commuted prison sentences of 11 people, including two Florida men.

Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, filed a proposal that would increase criminal penalties for immigrants who are arrested for felonies after illegally re-entering the U.S. following deportation for earlier crimes.