2025 Florida Legislature

School districts will be mandated under new law to provide low-cost electrocardiograms to student-athletes in Grades 9-12. The tests can detect deadly heart conditions.

The measure bans drilling, exploration or production of oil and gas reserves around marine estuaries.

This week on "The Florida Roundup," we looked at what we know so far about the immigration detention center being built in the Everglades, with the AP’s Kate Payne and Ted Hesson of Reuters. Plus, we spoke with POLITICO’s Bruce Ritchie about a new law aiming to put a long-running dispute between property owners and beach goers to rest.

The law will improve access to mental health care in rural and underserved schools.

They include a ban on communities adding fluoride to drinking water and prohibiting elementary and middle school students from using cell phones in schools.

USF agreed to name the Center for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Research for Sen. Darryl Rouson weeks after the House outraged senators by removing the proposal for the center from a bill.

The Tristin Murphy Act is named for an inmate who died by suicide in 2021 at a state prison work program while experiencing a mental health episode.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' signature undid a 2018 law requiring local governments to go through a judicial process before they can designate "dry sand" beach areas as publicly accessible.

DeSantis has 15 days to act on what's known as the "Kill the Drill" bill.

The measure passed Legislature unanimously but has not yet reached the governor's desk.

But more money has been allocated in this year's state budget for a program that pays farmers and ranchers in the Florida Wildlife Corridor not to develop their land.

Charter schools are public schools often run by private operators. Lawmakers in 2017 created the schools of hope program to serve children in areas with “persistently low-performing” traditional public schools.