Lawmakers, who will not be in Tallahassee next week, need to pass a budget before the start of the fiscal year. Also, DeSantis has line-item veto power before the budget takes effect.

State lawmakers made the final decision to extend the legislative session until June 6 right before the clock struck midnight ...

Legislative leaders say they have a general agreement on a budget. Lawmakers had to approve an extension of the regular ...

A session that started under the lingering shadow of a bitter yet short-lived argument over immigration came sputtering to an ...

They had one job. The Florida Legislature had 60 days to pass a balanced budget – the only job the state constitution requires of them. And they couldn’t do it. The combative tone among legislative ...

Florida’s lawmakers ended their regularly scheduled session Friday without completing their one required duty — passing a budget. Lawmakers will have to come back to Tallahassee starting the week of ...

Senate President Ben Albritton announced that lawmakers will take the next week off, with hopes that a budget conference will ...

DeSantis' second-to-last legislative session in Tallahassee has been defined by interparty squabbles that spilled out into ...

The 2025 legislative session unraveled amid an increasingly tense House-Senate clash over a massive tax-break package, a $4.4 ...

The Florida Legislature went home from their 60-day legislative session on Friday night without passing a budget, but did ...

A House resolution calling for Session to be extended to June 6 called for 16 bills to remain under consideration. That ...

Florida lawmakers ended the scheduled last day of the regular session May 2 without a budget – and with major bills crashing.