legislature 2014

Nearly a million Floridians have gained insurance though federal exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act. Many of those people are seeing big savings…

It was supposed to be simple.An election year with the state’s top job at stake—no one really wanting to ruffle any feathers. Pack a budget with tidbits…

Florida lawmakers are once again eyeing big changes to the state’s public universities and a few senators have set their sights on the Florida A&M and…

JR Harding is a quadriplegic who regularly gets gas from a station in Tallahassee where they know him. For years, he’s been using the stations call button…

It’s still early in the 2014 lawmaking session, but already gaps between the House and Senate are starting to emerge.The Legislature has passed some…

Florida lawmakers tinkering with the state employee health insurance program are poised to revamp the entire system. If the proposal is okayed by the…

Florida lawmakers have rolled out their education spending proposals for the upcoming fiscal year, and according to the raw numbers, there’s more money in…

State lawmakers want to turn Florida’s public school classrooms into digital oases. To make sure it happens, they’ve set goals for increasing bandwidth…

More students could get scholarships to go to private school next year under a planned expansion of the state’s corporate tax scholarship program. But…

The children of undocumented immigrants could soon be eligible for the in-state tuition rate at Florida’s public colleges and universities. A House bill…