Dara Kam

The expansion of the shift-hour reductions approved by the Senate on Saturday would result in about two-thirds of prison employees working 8.5-hour shifts.

The Senate devoted nearly three hours Thursday to an emotionally charged debate on the measure (HB 1).

Senate sponsor Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, argued the changes are needed to protect against vote-by-mail fraud.

The Senate set the measure up for a final vote as a coalition of civil-rights organizations condemned it.

“This is the best version of the bill yet. But it’s important to remember that none of this is necessary. It’s a reaction to voter turnout.”

Voters who want to submit ballots at drop boxes would have to show proof of identification or sign an “attestation” saying they did not have identification with them.

“There’s really just no end in sight…” DeSantis said Thursday.

The Senate is easing back on a plan to shutter and demolish four state prisons.

The lawsuit was the first major test of whether Marsy’s Law conflicts with a decades-old government-in-the-sunshine amendment that enshrined in the Florida Constitution some of the nation’s broadest public-records laws.

Under a measure approved by the Senate Health Policy Committee on Wednesday, “athletic teams or sports designated for females, women or girls may not be open to students of the male sex.”

“I don’t think this is good policy. I think it was hastily put together.”

Youth vaping skyrocketed in recent years but declined in 2020.

Republicans throughout the country are targeting mail-in ballots after millions of voters opted to vote by mail amid the coronavirus pandemic last year.

According to an arrest affidavit that details what Alex Rodriguez told investigators, Artiles orchestrated the “ghost campaign” to oust the Democrat.

The physicians spoke out after a committee approved a controversial proposal being pushed by Republican lawmakers in the state House.

Transgender young people “need to be affirmed and empowered, not used as political pawns,” Gina Duncan of Equality Florida.

“I have heard of no supervisors who are in support of this bill,” Leon County Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley told a Senate committee last week.

At the heart of the legislative wrangling is an effort to “preempt” regulation of short-term rental properties to the state.

“He went MIA for three weeks of November, claiming that he was working on some statewide plan,” Fried, the only statewide elected Democrat, told Jong-Fast.

“It gets a little frustrating to have to keep going back and talk about” a court martial that occurred over 30 years ago, he added.