Florida Legislature 2015

A Florida judge is blocking a new state law that requires women to wait 24 hours before getting an abortion.Tallahassee Chief Circuit Judge Charles…

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday ended the state's biggest budget crisis in more than two decades by signing a more than $78 billion budget into law,...

Calling it a “slap in the face to Florida voters,” environmental groups filed a lawsuit Monday that contends state legislators “defied” a constitutional…

A bruising budget battle that divided Republicans in the Florida Legislature is over for now, but the truce is likely only to last a few…

After a sprawling and messy budget fight that spawned lawsuits and finger-pointing, the fractured Republican-controlled Florida Legislature approved a…

Following a drawn out, contentious battle that saw the state flirt with a partial government shutdown, the Florida Legislature is poised today to approve…

Pointing to a budget agreement reached by lawmakers, Gov. Rick Scott's attorneys late Tuesday withdrew a request for a preliminary injunction in a legal…

Bills that involve state workers' health insurance, nurse-practitioners and hospital regulations died during this week's Legislative special session…

House and Senate budget negotiators struck a deal on a state spending plan Monday night moments before the stroke of midnight, pouring $301 million into…

A bill aimed at toughening Florida’s human trafficking laws will become law in a few months, following Governor Rick Scott’s signing. It increases the...