term limits

When Florida lawmakers went home after ending the 2024 legislative session Friday, they left behind hundreds of bills that did not pass.

“After all, the Legislature is term-limited out at eight years, and what’s good for us is good for pretty much anybody else," said Senate President Kathleen Passidomo.

A House subcommittee has voted in support of putting a proposed constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot.

Governor Ron DeSantis has scored a critical victory in his war against so-called “wokeness.” The Republican-controlled legislature is sending him a bill that says employers cannot compel their employees to participate in training that can make the employee feel bad; schools cannot teach subjects like history or race in a way that can make students feel the same. In addition to fighting wokeness, the legislature is also allowing greater flexibility in challenging school books, and term-limiting school board members.

School board members in Florida are likely to keep their salaries, for now. The Florida Senate has dropped a plan that would have replaced salaries with stipends, and is now focused on the term limit issue. The proposal also includes language around how schools select classroom and library materials while giving parents more power to get rid of books they don’t like.

The Florida House is poised to vote on a proposal that would ramp up scrutiny of school library books and instructional materials. A provision added to the bill would impose eight-year term limits on school board members.

A plan to term limit local school board members is still moving in the House following an affirmative vote in the chamber’s Education and Employment Committee Thursday. The measure has undergone changes, but that may not be enough to get it to the finish line.

Democratic state Senator Lauren Book’s move to seek term limits for local school board members is a change from her previous position on the issue.Book…

A push to term limit local school board members has gained a powerful Democrat: State Sen. Lauren Book. She's filed a constitutional amendment proposal to…

When Governor Rick Scott rolled out the first television ad in his campaign for U.S. Senate in April, it centered entirely on his desire to bring 12-year…