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House and Senate higher-education budget negotiators are eyeing the elimination of a $600 annual stipend that covers textbook costs for Bright Futures scholarship recipients. Conference committees met Saturday as the House and Senate are in the process of ironing out a budget for the coming fiscal year. Cutting the Bright Futures textbook stipend, provided to scholarship recipients known as Academic Scholars who receive 100 percent tuition assistance, would represent a nearly $37.5 million reduction in higher education spending. Senate Education Appropriations Chairman Doug Broxson, R-Gulf Br...

Florida Legislature is down to deal-making days of session Republican leaders are employing the politics of leverage, trading one leadership priority for another to get their pet projects across the finish line.     The Capitol in Tallahassee is seen following Opening Day of the Florida Legislature on March 3. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ] Updated 3 hours ago TALLAHASSEE  -- For more than eight hours on April 9, the Senate Appropriations Committee met to discuss a single piece of legislation and was prepared to extend the meeting into the next day, a Saturday, if needed. It was the Senate�...

Budget Update Lawmakers moved closer this week to crafting a FY 2021-22 State Budget. Senate and House full budget committees met this week to pass their respective spending plans (SB 2500 and HB 5001) teeing them up for debate, possible amendments, and passage on the full floor of the chambers. Budget conference will be called subsequently to hammer out remaining differences, including spending on education, health care and the environment. Currently the House spends $97.1 billion, while the Senate is at $95 billion. Both chambers are proposing putting aside $5 billion for reserves. Altho...

Appropriations subcommittees released their respective, initial spending plans this week beginning the budget process that will cumulate in passage of the 2021-22 Fiscal ...