Thursday's Afternoon Update | 4/29/2021 Florida legislative session final days: Updates on what you need to know The 60-day legislative session is nearly over. Lawmakers could agree Friday on the one thing that they are required to do, pass Florida’s state budget, and go home. But no matter what happens next, the 2021 session has already felt more consequential than recent sessions. Perhaps not since the 2011 session, when tea party Republicans flexed their muscle after being swept into office for the first time, have so many important — and divisive — bills been passed. More from the Tampa Bay Times. Florida's new invasive reptile rules have breeders leaving and activists rejoicing