Dara Kam - News Service of Florida

The “expectant mother parking permit” allows pregnant women to obtain disabled parking placards at any point in their pregnancies.

The committee behind the proposed constititional amendment filed a lawsuit asking a judge to order Secretary of State Cord Byrd and his office to “comply with their statutory obligations.”

Ben Albritton was elected to the Senate in 2018 after serving in the Florida House for eight years and became Senate president after the 2024 elections.

Rep. Christine Hunschofsky, D-Parkland, chats about bills she's filed for the 2026 legislative session, gun reform and more.

The lawsuit focuses on a section of a law that prohibits local governments from proposing or adopting “more restrictive or burdensome” amendments to comprehensive plans or land development regulations.

As Daniel Perez gears up for his final session as Florida's House Speaker, he talks about the timing stand-off on Congressional redistricting, property taxes and more.

Republican Rep. Sam Garrison will succeed Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez after the 2026 elections.

Attorney General James Uthmeier issued the rule in August prohibiting the kratom byproduct alkaloid 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH.

Lawyers for the Smart & Safe Florida committee said they were waiving the right to appeal Leon County Judge John Cooper's ruling “to provide finality to this matter and certainty to the result.”

The ruling wiped out roughly a third of the signatures submitted by the political committee backing the proposed constitutional amendment to allow recreational marijuana.