Florida House

House Speaker-designate Sam Garrison on Monday announced the names of the state representatives who will chair committees during his two-year term.

Republicans mostly staved off what Gov. Ron DeSantis called a “meteor strike” of national Democratic success last week. During what the governor called “probably the most difficult electoral environment that Republicans will face in quite some time,” he praised Florida as the only large state with a conservative tilt to “hold the line.”

Florida Democrats are rejoicing this week over flipping up to 17 seats in the Florida House, pending a recount taking place for one seat. It means they have broken the supermajority in the chamber that Republicans have had since 2022.

Florida House Democratic Leader-designate Christine Hunschofsky said breaking the supermajority means Republicans can no longer act alone on certain major decisions, including overriding a governor’s veto or bypassing legislative rules, which require a two-thirds vote.

U.S. Senate hopeful Angie Nixon and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz condemned ICE officials for unlawfully detaining people for up to several days at a time in overcrowded cells, failing to provide proper medical attention and granting detainees limited access to legal counsel.

Three Republicans and two Democrats are running in the Aug. 18 primary election to represent the North Grove, Shenandoah, Brickell, and downtown Miami in Tallahassee next year.

In every case, the incumbent enters the home stretch of the primary with a sizeable financial advantage.

Byron Donalds, Anna Paulina Luna and Randy Fine said they won't support any bill until the SAVE America Act passes

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.

86-year-old billionaire Herbie Wertheim and friend of Trump seeks Republican Party’s nod to challenge Lois Frankel in Trump’s home district.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on the Florida House to impeach a Tallahassee judge who briefly released a sex offender onto the streets, resulting in the killing of the man’s 5-year-old stepdaughter.

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.