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Live updates: What to know from end of Florida’s legislative session Two days are left in the regularly scheduled 60-day legislative session. Here’s what’s happening today.     Florida representatives work through a legislative session, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at the Capitol in Tallahassee. [ WILFREDO LEE | AP ] Updated 1 minute ago TALLAHASSEE — 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 sessio...

Florida lawmakers pass compromise measure affecting newspaper ad revenue Kirby Wilson, Tampa Bay Times © Luis Santana/Times Bundled newspapers make their way down the conveyor belt at the Tampa Bay Times printing plant during its final press run on Saturday, March 6, 2021 in St. Petersburg. TALLAHASSEE — In March, the Florida House passed a bill which would have stripped many Florida news organizations of a key source of advertising revenue. After weeks of negotiations between Republican lawmakers and lobbyists for the state’s newspaper industry, that bill, House Bill 3...

Florida’s police reform bill touted as “good start’ by Senate, heads to DeSantis Chokeholds would be limited “to circumstances where the officer perceives an immediate threat of serious bodily injury or death to himself, herself, or another person” under the bill.     Sen. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, left, talks with Sen. Audrey Gibson, D-Jacksonville [ STEVE CANNON | Special to the Times ] By Ryan Dailey Updated Apr. 29 TALLAHASSEE — With several Black lawmakers heralding what they described as a starting point to improve community interactions with polic...

DeSantis signs bill expanding legal protections for farmers The measure expands the state’s “Right to Farm” law, which was initially approved in 1979 and helps shield farmers from what are known as nuisance lawsuits.     Front: Governor Ron DeSantis. Middle (pictured left to right): Pahokee Mayor Keith Babb; Stephen Singleton, Singleton and Sons; Matt Griffin, Former Florida Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher and 2020 Excellence in Agriculture Award recipient; Michael K. Brown, Brown’s Produce Farms, LLC; Shedrick and Denise McGriff, McGriff Farms; Senator Kathlee...

5 things to know about Florida’s health care budget The state spends much of its money on health care. Here’s what it’s doing.     A pharmacist portions a dose of the BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ] Updated 1 minute ago TALLAHASSEE — Pick a random dollar out of Florida’s $101.5 billion budget, and it’s got a strong chance of going to a health care program. That means Florida’s health care spending plan sheds a great deal of light on the priorities of state leaders. Who gets coverag...