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Weekly Roundup: ‘Making great progress’
By JIM TURNER
News Service of Florida
TALLAHASSEE — Lawmakers remain in a holding pattern, with no concrete progress made on the budget.
Legislative leaders issued memos to members saying they won’t need to return to the Capitol next week because there’s no agreement on allocations – top line numbers for the spending plan.
Special session needed for property tax, DeSantis says
By JIM TURNER
News Service of Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis said the effort to offer voters property tax relief will require time beyond the regular session.
With the regular 60-day session set to end March 13, DeSantis claimed that despite the House approving property tax relief legislation (HJR 203), the Senate agrees with him that the creation of a November ballot item on homestead property taxes will be addressed after that date.
Weekly Roundup: A weekend off
By JIM TURNER
News Service of Florida
Most lawmakers got a somewhat unexpected weekend off as the House and Senate didn’t begin the budget conference phase at the conclusion of the regular session’s seventh of nine scheduled weeks.
With talks growing that extra time will be needed on a property tax cut amendment to put before voters, a top priority of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the chambers did release tax cut packages this week. And while the size of the cuts isn’t as large as in prior years, there are still significant differences between the chambers that could complicate budget talks.
Correction
- A list of cast members appearing in the play “Murder under the Moose Big Top” in last week’s paper omitted the last name of one performer – that of Charlene Meyer.
We regret the error.