Florida Legislature 2016

The Florida Senate is sending a medical marijuana proposal to the governor. The reform package grants access to terminal patients and carries a number...

Thousands of state workers -- including Gov. Rick Scott -- are expected once again to keep paying low rates for health insurance.Budget negotiators on…

A deal on the state's public-safety budget that lawmakers reached late Friday would not give the Department of Corrections the 734 additional positions…

A day after the House approved a bill aimed at expanding the use of "telehealth" in Florida, the Senate on Thursday scaled back the proposal.The Senate…

Florida lawmakers seem ready to give some terminally ill Floridians access to medical marijuana. But some medical marijuana expansion supporters are...

The Florida House on Thursday passed a long-debated proposal to help children of legal immigrants get health-insurance coverage through the state's…

This week the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case challenging a Texas law that requires abortion providers have admitting privileges. Meanwhile similar legi...

Senate President Andy Gardiner said late Wednesday he was considering bringing Surgeon General John Armstrong's nomination to the Senate floor, a…

After a spate of child deaths in Florida, the Department of Children and Families is doubling down on child welfare reforms. Now state lawmakers are...

A bill aimed at helping to address the state’s rape kits backlog is now heading to the Governor, after passing the Florida Legislature unanimously.