Ben Albritton

A memo Monday night said additional testing "identified a potential abnormality in the upper left portion of (Albritton's) heart that requires additional testing and review."

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.

Senate President Ben Albritton's proposal passed his chamber unanimously for the second year in a row. Whether it will make headway in the House remains to be seen.

On "The Florida Roundup," Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, explained why he supports a special session for redistricting, digging into property tax reform and more.

This week on "The Florida Roundup," we spoke with the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta about inflation, the job market and affordability. Then, we talked about the upcoming state legislative session with Senate President Ben Albritton and more.

CMS announced the share each state will receive through the Rural Health Transformation Program, which was part of a tax package that President Donald Trump signed in July.

A wide-ranging proposal dubbed the "rural renaissance bill" is back and ready to be heard by the full chamber in January.

The bill would provide $25 million aimed at helping physicians, physician assistants and APRNs set up practices in rural communities and increase Medicaid payments for “critical access” hospitals.

Florida House supporters of redistricting want to do it during the legislative session, which begins in mid-January. But the Senate president and Gov. Ron DeSantis want to wait for a court decision.

The Appropriations Committee is scheduled to take up Senate President Ben Albritton's priority "rural renaissance" bill next week, possibly sending it before the full chamber after the session starts in January.

Boyd served in the House from 2010 to 2018 before getting elected in 2020 to the Senate, where he serves as majority leader. He will succeed President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, after the 2026 elections.

All state lawmakers representing Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties voted for the “Schools of Hope” expansion . Now that a Miami-based charter operator has filed early notices to occupy several local schools, most of those lawmakers have declined to answer questions about the law or its local impacts.