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Florida Gov. DeSantis signs $115 billion-plus budget with $567 million in vetoes
The 2025-2026 budget comes in less than the 2024-2025 budget, which was $117.46 billion
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Orlando Weekly covers Gov. Ron DeSantis with news on education policy, book bans, Disney’s special district, free speech issues, and state politics.
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DeSantis signs $1.6B tax package to give cuts on school shopping, hurricane supplies, commercial leases
Sales taxes will also disappear on admissions to state parks, tickets for NASCAR Cup Series Championship Races and more
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DeSantis wants to ‘upend the monopoly of the woke accreditation cartels’ by developing a new university accreditor
The move comes in response to existing agencies the governor says require schools to ‘bend the knee’ to get accredited
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DeSantis signs bill to make changes to debris removal, home rebuilding as hurricane season looms
The bill also would seek to prevent a repeat of an incident where a crane collapsed into a St. Petersburg office building when Hurricane Milton slammed into the area
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DeSantis claims ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will have ‘zero impact’ on Everglades restoration
Environmental advocates and local officials say the project threatens drinking water and protected land
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Gov. DeSantis signs bill that could help bring Trump’s presidential library to Florida
DeSantis’ office announced Monday he had signed the bill and 13 others from the legislative session
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Gov. DeSantis signs legislation to relieve financial burdens on Florida condo owners
The measure follows tightened regulations enacted after the 2021 Surfside condo collapse in South Florida
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Florida flights return 300 Americans evacuating Israel, DeSantis and FDEM say
According to DeSantis, Florida has helped ‘effectuate’ more than 1,500 people’s exit from Israel
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DeSantis erases ‘LGBTQ and Hispanic communities’ from Pulse remembrance statement
Last year’s statement referred to the massacre as a ‘horrific act of terrorism against the LGBTQ and Hispanic communities’
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Florida Gov. DeSantis signs Brooke’s Law targeting deepfake porn
Companies that don’t make good faith efforts to remove deepfakes would violate the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act
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Gov. DeSantis says he’s still working on property tax rebates for Florida homeowners
But budget chiefs for the Legislature say they remain unaware of any formal proposal
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DeSantis suspends Osceola County Sheriff after he was arrested on racketeering charges
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s Office of Statewide Prosecution charged Lopez and four other individuals in a ‘massive Central Florida gambling operation’
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Gov. DeSantis backs one of his top aides to become Florida education commissioner
Manny Diaz Jr. prepares to leave the commissioner’s job to take over as interim president of the University of West Florida
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DeSantis quietly signs bill to bar golf courses, hotels in Florida state parks
The new law requires the state to announce public hearings regarding projects in state parks 30 days in advance
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Florida child care center employees can undergo training to carry guns under new law signed by DeSantis
The change is part of an expansion of the program that already allows school employees to act as law enforcement when an active shooter enters campus
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Gov. DeSantis says there is ‘no basis’ for investigation into Hope Florida
‘That is not an organic investigation. That’s a manufactured political operation,’ the governor said
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DeSantis says he will sign legislation banning psychedelic mushroom spores in Florida
The measure is part of an omnibus ‘Florida Farm Bill’ also known for including a ban on fluoride in drinking water
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Gov. DeSantis joined state troopers to discuss immigration arrests in Florida
The Florida Highway Patrol for the first time has the authority to arrest immigrants
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DeSantis threatens to veto a plan that would include lowering the state sales-tax rate
DeSantis argued that a House plan to reduce the sales-tax rate is something ‘nobody is asking for’
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DeSantis stands by AG James Uthmeier’s defiance of federal courts over immigration arrests
The governor said the episode raises a ‘larger issue’ of who can enact public policy in the U.S.