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The Sunshine Edition: The 2015 Florida Legislature

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The gavel falls Tuesday in Tallahassee, when Florida lawmakers officially begin the 2015 legislative session. The one item they have to do is pass a state budget -- and this year they have a $1 billion surplus, a growing state economy and a governor fresh off a re-election win.

Each spring for 60 days the Florida Legislature tackles a year's worth of state business. On the agenda this law-writing session are reforms to public-education testing, hundreds of millions of dollars of mandated spending on the environment and billions of dollars in federal money for health care.

Florida Public Radio and WLRN in Miamihave produced an hour-long special program to discuss this session's agenda. 

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Part Two: Will Florida act on Medicaid expansion this year?
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Part Three: Revisiting medical marijuana during this year's legislative session.

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Live Blog The Sunshine Edition: 2015 Florida Legislature

Tom Hudson is WLRN's Senior Economics Editor and Special Correspondent.
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