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.
Dear Senator Baxley,
About your statement that a Florida Slavery Memorial would "celebrate defeat" -- your opportunity to kill a tribute the entire Florida House voted for:
There are those who are giving you the benefit of the doubt.
I'm not one of them.
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.
In the end, in a House of Representatives where Republicans dominate, private property rights were always going to win.
With buzz building that he could make another run for statewide office, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., raised his profile on security issues this week.
The following video is Rep. Katie Edwards' impassioned plea to Rep. Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, to kill the 90-day wait period in House Bill 1397 on medical marijuana -- asking him to make sure the bill considers patients first.
Edwards, D-Plantation, is one of the originators of Florida's 2014 medical marijuana law allowing noneuphoric strains of marijuana for epilepsy and cancer.
