2024 Florida Legislature

These hospitals receive more than $3 million in federal money a year., but the catch is there are zero inpatient beds. .The Florida Legislature recently passed a bill that to create a category of “rural emergency hospitals" and help keep facilities open.

The bill would bring to six the number of potentially lucrative licenses earmarked for Black farmers with ties to decades-old litigation about discriminatory lending practices by federal officials.

Gov. Ron DeSantis indicates it would be unhealthy to allow children to remain "wedded to a handful of social media apps.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis has until March 27 to sign, veto or allow the legislation to become law without his signature.

The measure approved by Florida lawmakers is narrowly focused on single-use devices, a significant change from a plan floated earlier.

After failing to appeal to get more heat protections from the Legislature, a coalition of farmworkers from South-Dade and Immokalee intend to take their campaign directly to the powerful fast food and grocery industries that buy the produce they harvest.

The state’s process for involuntary psychiatric evaluations is getting a major overhaul under legislation that’s cleared the Legislature this year, with advocates saying its long overdue.

A ban on the sale of flavored nicotine vaping devices in Florida is heading to Gov. Ron DeSantis. Protesters say it will hurt businesses and their employees.

The move comes just days before Miami-Dade County was expected to vote on its own heat protection ordinance.

The bill would designates four behavioral health teaching hospitals linked to universities and provides them $100 million a year over the next three years.