Florida Senate

About a month after Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to broadly legalize medical marijuana, a Senate panel next week will start looking…

After a fierce legislative debate early this year about fracking, a freshman senator filed a proposal Friday that would bar the use of the controversial…

Incoming Senate Appropriations Chairman Jack Latvala has called a special meeting of the Pinellas County legislative delegation for Sept. 20 to discuss…

The Florida Department of Health has lowered the number of people who caught HIV in Florida.That’s according to a story in the Tampa Bay Times. Florida…

House and Senate budget chiefs reached agreement Thursday night on two areas of the state spending plan for the year beginning July 1, striking deals on…

The Florida Legislature is moving forward with a bill that could restrict abortion access. But similar measures have been struck down in other states.

The Florida Senate on Wednesday passed legislation expanding aid for students with intellectual disabilities and named the program for Senate President…

A bill aimed at reducing instability for foster children has started to move forward in the Florida Senate and would require the child-welfare system to…

Despite several changes made in recent days to assuage the concerns of the Republican majority, the Florida House remains poised to defeat a health-care…

Republicans who control the Governor's mansion and both chambers of the state legislature are at an impasse over the issue of health care and whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.