2023 Florida Legislature

The proposals were released ahead of Monday’s start of a special legislative session. They would provide about $416 million to efforts tied to Hurricane Idalia and the My Safe Florida Home Program.

The challenge contended the exemptions from the restrictions were intended to apply to all workers represented by public-safety unions — not just law-enforcement officers, correctional officers and firefighters.

A new law that could lead to imposing the death penalty on people who rape children under age 12 will take effect Sunday, along with other laws passed during the 2023 legislative session.

Florida public colleges will now be required to update policies on restrooms and changing rooms to have separate facilities “based on biological sex at birth.”

Tallahassee Community College says an academic enrichment program that primarily serves African American men won’t have to change its name under a new state higher education law.

The Black Male Achievers at Tallahassee Community College might have to change its name or risk losing state and federal funding under a new Florida law.

Florida’s six-week abortion law allows exemptions, including to save the health of the mother. But the recent history of exemptions in other states suggests few women will be able to take advantage.

In a case filed in federal court on Monday, groups argue the law puts Florida immigrants in harm’s way.

A lawyer representing Chinese citizens in Florida has told a federal judge that a new law banning them and some other foreign nationals from purchasing property in large swaths of the state violates federal housing discrimination laws.

Thousands of transgender adults are grappling with Florida’s new health landscape after a state board issued new rules for care at the end of June.

A bill proposing full insurance coverage of skin cancer screenings died in the Florida Senate, despite melanoma cases and deaths rising.

The veto came days after former President Donald Trump slammed DeSantis and EVs.