News Service of Florida

President Joe Biden says the rule will be released “soon,” though he did not give a specific date. Gov. Ron DeSantis says the state will contest it immediately to protect the jobs of Floridians.

The law enhances penalties and creates new crimes in protests that turn violent.

Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, has also filed a proposal to rescind the designation of the mockingbird as the state bird.

Attorneys for the DeSantis administration wrote in a brief that the law is an “economic regulation that does not implicate” the First Amendment.

The federal government continues to withhold one-third of the state’s allocation, which amounts to $2.3 billion.

In requesting that a judge reconsider an earlier decision, an attorney for the parents who filed the lawsuit pointed, in part, to a revised Department of Health rule that eased restrictions on students who have been exposed to people with COVID-19.

The proposal would allow would allow people 21 or older to grow and use marijuana, with a cap of 18 plants per household.

The grant is intended to pay for the salaries of eight Broward board members who voted for a student mask mandate that allows exceptions only for medical reasons during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sen. Joe Gruters, a Sarasota Republican who also serves as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, filed a measure that seeks to turn school board elections into partisan contests. Currently in Florida, school board elections are non-partisan races.

State officials say it's due to a "banking error" by JPMorgan Chase.