So Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 633, the abortion-waiting-period bill. What else is new? Another year, another opportunity for Florida to shame a woman.

You have to ask yourself, what's next? You know there's going to be a something-next. This bill that mandates a woman terminating her pregnancy make back-to-back visits to the medical clinic within 24 hours is all part of a coordinated, national strategy to end access to safe, legal abortion. I'm sure of it.

While slicing and dicing other areas of the budget, lawmakers plan to boost the state's spending on prisons by $43 million to address needs such as replacing vehicles and fixing leaky roofs and to wipe out a years-long deficit.

The Florida School Boards Association, one of the groups heavily invested in the lawsuit over Florida's Tax Credit Scholarship program, decided Wednesday it wouldn't be appealing a Leon County Circuit Court judge's dismissal of the case.

U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., currently running for the U.S. Senate seat held by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., unveiled a proposal to reduce the federal gas tax on Wednesday. 

DeSantis teamed up with U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a frequent legislative partner of Rubio’s, to unveil the Transportation Empowerment Act on Wednesday. The proposal would cut the federal gas tax by 14.6cents over a gallon over a five-year period to 3.7 cents and give the states more power on how to spend federal monies for transportation and infrastructure projects.