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Moving 4th DCA downtown draws $6.5 million in state budget
Money is set aside again by state lawmakers for moving the 4th DCA Lawmakers agreed Tuesday to tuck $6.5 million into the state budget as a second installment on plans for moving the moldy 4th District...
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Budget talks disappear behind closed doors as health regulations take stage...
Talks between House and Senate budget chiefs behind closed doors. With work on finalizing a state budget pushed behind closed doors, House and Senate committees Wednesday began tackling a host of...
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Senate increases House tax break proposal to almost $430M
Senate ups House tax break proposal A Florida Senate panel Thursday approved a $428.9 million package of tax breaks, topping a similar proposal already advanced by the House. The Senate Appropriations...
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After three-month feud over financing, hospitals to get a “haircut” in budget...
House and Senate cut deal on hospital funding After feuding for three months, House and Senate budget negotiators Friday settled hospital financing by approving a plan that gives many facilities what...
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Inland port money for Palm Beach County among dozens of budget items settled
Senate Budget Chief Tom Lee (left) with Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart. Close to $500,000 for developing a South Bay commerce park tied to Palm Beach County’s proposed inland port project was among dozens...
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Florida House follows Senate in approving more than $400 million in tax...
Senate OKs tax break package. The Florida Senate opened the final scheduled week of a special session Monday by swiftly approving a $428.9 million package of tax breaks for the coming year. Just a...
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Senate won’t hear House’s health bills; proposes task force instead
Sen. Aaron Bean The House’s half-dozen bills aimed at easing regulations on hospital expansion and other health care issues will not be going before a Senate committee, the panel’s chairman said...
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Unveiling hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending, House and Senate...
Shortly before midnight, fueled by millions in newly unveiled spending, a budget deal is reached in Tallahassee Unveiling hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending, House and Senate budget...
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Old Capitol to turn purple for Alzheimer’s — but lawmakers provide little green
Florida’s Old Capitol to turn purple for Alzheimer’s but state dollars aren’t there. Florida’s Old Capitol is slated to turn purple tonight — to draw attention to Alzheimer’s disease, the nation’s...
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House readies budget for final vote following debate over health,...
Florida lawmakers poised to approve budget, end special session The Florida House readied for a vote Friday on the state’s $78.7 billion budget, following sharply divided debate over health care,...
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Florida Legislature OK’s state budget — ends special session a day early
House and Senate OK state budget. The Florida House and Senate end a three-week special session a day ahead of schedule Friday, approving a $78.7 billion state budget for the year beginning July 1 and...
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Who were the winners, losers and hangers-on from the ’15 special session?
House Speaker Steve Crisafulli takes a few questions(House photo) Working into June on a state budget for the first time in 23 years, Florida lawmakers avoided a government shutdown by approving a...
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Scott signs state budget behind closed doors, vetoes to be announced later
Gov. Scott signed budget Tuesday in his office Gov. Rick Scott signed the state’s roughly $78 billion-plus budget Tuesday morning in a closed-door event in his office. Vetoes were unveiled later in the...
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Scott erases cash for Lake Worth, Riviera Beach and more in vetoing $461.4...
Gov. Scott erased plenty from the state budget approved by lawmakers Gov. Rick Scott vetoed $461.4 million in spending Tuesday from the $78.7 billion state budget approved by the Legislature last week,...
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Senate President Gardiner says Scott shattered dreams with vetoes
Senate President Gardiner Senate President Andy Gardiner, who clashed with Gov. Rick Scott for most of the past three months over expanding health coverage, was hit hard in Tuesday’s roster of budget...
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Sifting through Scott vetoes and Palm Beach spending that survived
Not all of Palm Beach County’s projects were crossed out by Scott’s veto pen. Lost in the pile-up of projects vetoed by Gov. Rick Scott in signing the state’s $78.2 billion budget was an easily...
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State cut in disabilities’ program stuns, angers parents
A state Senate-pushed reduction slashed funding for program from $10 million to $750,000 Harriette Winter called it “unbelievable, unconscionable.” The 85-year-old Century Village-Boca Raton woman said...
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Florida CFO Atwater calls Greece “fiscally irresponsible nation”
CFO Jeff Atwater Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, used the latest Greek bailout Monday as an opportunity for a little compare and contrast to his home state’s finances. Unlike the...
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Scott touts state’s efforts for disabled, but no mention of cut to critical...
Scott touts disabilities advances, but doesn’t mention deep cut in funding for critical program. Gov. Rick Scott visited Miami Gardens to promote his recent signing of legislation allowing parents to...
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Scott in West Palm Beach touting disabled efforts, despite program cut
Gov. Scott to visit Gulfstream Goodwill Industries in West Palm Beach Gov. Rick Scott comes to West Palm Beach today, continuing a tour promoting new legislation that allows parents to create a...
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