The fiscal 2011-2012 budget is set to be adopted Friday, the final day of the regular legislative session, along with a comprehensive overhaul of Florida's Medicaid program.

A deal on the $69.7 billion budget was reached earlier in the week, and the state Senate prepped a compromise Medicaid reform bill with the House Thursday.

Those two issues, which Sen. Dennis Jones, R-Seminole, a 30-year veteran of the Legislature, last week said helped to define the session, will have to wait until the 60th day before being fully addressed by the Legislature.

A bill that significantly alters voting rules in the state took one step closer to becoming law Wednesday, as the Florida Senate prepared legislation reducing early voting days, protecting against voter fraud and setting up a committee to determine the date for the 2012 presidential preference primary for a final vote.