2026 Florida Legislature

“They are willing to do an illegal unconstitutional act by doing mid-decade redistricting,” added Rep. Ashley Gantt, D-Miami. “That is literally nullifying a section of the Constitution that is unambiguous.”

Senate President Ben Albritton and House Speaker Daniel Perez issued separate statements advising their respective members they won’t need to travel to Tallahassee next week for a special session on the budget.

Florida Republicans have promised for nearly a year to provide meaningful property tax relief to Floridians in the form of a constitutional amendment they could vote on this November. Despite that hype, no such proposal has received the three-fifths support in both chambers in the Legislature that is required to get a legislatively backed constitutional amendment on the ballot.

The Florida Legislature recently passed a bill that seriously limits how local governments can support LGBTQ Pride — but local institutions are pressing on anyways. Gov. Ron DeSantis is likely to sign it into law.

In a statement, House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, said Monday that DeSantis and Republicans in the Florida Legislature "decided to prioritize wasting five million of your taxpayer dollars on renaming an airport after the President."

Gov. Ron DeSantis, flanked by Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson and Senate President Ben Albritton, signed the 2026 Florida Farm bill in Highlands County Monday.

The Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund can’t be used to purchase any more boats, aircraft, or motor vehicles, but they can be leased for a “short-time,” SB 7040 says. The Republican-dominated Legislature approved these new guardrails after the state’s emergency managers spent more than $573 million on immigration enforcement in three years.

Florida's legislative session was scheduled to end March 13, but for the second year in a row, legislators were not able to cross the finish line with a completed budget. Your Florida asked residents how they think lawmakers did.

Florida is finally eligible for a $608 million federal grant to help pay for the state’s migrant lockups after the Trump administration lifted an environmental funding hold that had stalled the dollars for months.

Florida lawmakers approved significant new guardrails Friday for the multibillion-dollar emergency fund that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration used to construct and operate the sprawling immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Legislators added a provision eliminating zoning requirements for small private schools into a Democratic-led bill in the waning hours of the 2026 legislative session. Both GOP-led chambers of the Florida Legislature on Thursday passed SB 182, allowing private schools with 150 or fewer students to operate in commercially zoned buildings.

Florida will soon be able to legally designate groups as “domestic terrorist organizations” under a bill headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk. The Republican-controlled House voted 80-25 on Thursday on the measure (HB 1471) which backs up DeSantis’ executive order in December that named two Islamic groups as terrorist organizations.