Florida state budget

With legislative leaders trying to meet a Tuesday deadline for finishing a new state budget, Gov. Ron DeSantis will get more money than he requested for a reactivated Florida State Guard and to relocate undocumented immigrants out of the state.

Florida lawmakers will have an additional $2.6 billion to play with in general-revenue taxes, along with nearly $6 billion in unspent federal coronavirus stimulus money, as they begin to piece together an election-year budget.

This is the Institute's 3rd edition of the report it first published nearly 2 decades ago.

Florida lawmakers have gotten a well-timed budget break thanks to a decision by the federal government to extend the nation’s public-health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Florida is halfway through its legislative session. But the House and Senate have a lot to do before they leave the Capitol.House Speaker Steve Crisafulli…

Starting on Tuesday, The Leon Co. Clerk of Courts office will open to the public an hour earlier and close an hour later. After facing a budget shortfall…