Florida Budget

About $150 million sought to rebuild Hillsborough College isn't in the first spending offers. Budget committee Chair Ed Hooper, R-Clearwater, says the state won't act until stadium financing is complete.

Differences between the House and Senate stem from the approach to funding for preeminent research universities, including USF, and the move of USF Sarasota-Manatee to New College.

Florida lawmakers are back in Tallahassee for a special session focused on next year’s state budget. One influential Republican senator says lawmakers are ready to “lay our swords down” after months of Capitol infighting.

The agreement reached Thursday involves top-line numbers, known as allocations.

It means Gov. Ron DeSantis' major priority will likely get pushed until late May — at the earliest.

Lawmakers ended their regular session on March 13 without agreeing to a spending plan for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. While talks are ongoing, no breakthrough to the logjam has been reached.

State budget leaders are being asked to let a pair of agencies distribute federal dollars for security around the seven FIFA World Cup matches that will be held in South Florida this summer.

It was tentatively set to begin next week.

Lawmakers need the extra time with the Florida legislative session set to end.

The House and Senate are expected to take time off before returning to work out the differences in their proposed spending plans.

Florida's regular legislative session is scheduled to end Friday. We've seen some priority bills pass the Senate while getting no discussion in the House.

Florida lawmakers are supposed to wrap up the session next week. But the House speaker says the chances the budget gets done by then are "looking tough."