Former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham is headed to Miami to make a “major announcement” on Tuesday, likely announcing her intentions to run for Florida governor in 2018. 

On Monday, state Rep. Matt Caldwell, R-Lehigh Acres, filed his paperwork to run for Florida agriculture commissioner in 2018 when current incumbent Adam Putnam faces term limits.

Florida Sen. Rene Garcia, R-Hialeah, said he is “seriously considering” running to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., in Congress. 

With U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., bowing out of Congress, Democrats are hopeful about flipping her South Florida seat. 

Accolades are pouring in from both sides of the aisle after U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the dean of the Florida delegation, announced that she was going to retire from Congress after almost three decades of service. 

House lawmakers are ready to vote on a newly-amended bill to regulate Florida’s medical marijuana industry this week, with the vote over one of the hottest bills of the legislative session likely happening Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the current dean of the Florida delegation and the first woman to ever lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced on Sunday that she was retiring from Congress. 

Florida budget leaders will have to decide how to structure about $651 million in Medicaid cuts for hospitals and also will grapple with issues such as how much money nursing-home residents should keep each month for personal needs.

A conference committee on health and human-services programs finished work after a late morning meeting Saturday and "bumped" unresolved issues to Senate Appropriations Chairman Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, and House Appropriations Chairman Carlos Trujillo, R-Miami.

Adam Putnam hasn’t said he’s running for governor -- yet -- but he continued to stoke the fire of his rumored gubernatorial bid to a group of Republican party faithful Saturday morning.

Eligible patients would not have to wait 90 days to get medical marijuana if doctors recommend the treatment, under a compromise measure ready for a House vote just days before next Friday's end of the annual legislative session.

The measure, proposed by House Majority Leader Ray Rodrigues, brings the House closer in line with the Senate's approach to carrying out a November constitutional amendment that legalized marijuana for patients with a broad swath of debilitating medical conditions.