Florida Senate

The Florida Hospital Association said the House budget is harsher on hospitals, but said both chambers are proposing to eliminate funds for facilities that treat large numbers of Medicaid patients.

Abortion is currently legal in Florida up to 24 weeks of gestation. It is only allowed beyond that if the pregnancy threatens a woman's life and physical health.

Host Steve Newborn breaks down the top issues — including abortion, election security and redistricting — with Tallahassee reporter James Call.

Host Steve Newborn breaks down the top issues — including abortion, election security and redistricting — Tallahassee reporter James Call.

It means voters have few clues so far about where these candidates have earned their money, where they invested or to whom they owe personal debts.

“What occurred in Senator Polsky’s office was unprofessional and will not be tolerated in the Senate," Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson wrote in a memo.

President Wilton Simpson sent a memo to senators saying it was disappointing to learn of the incident at the office of Democratic state Sen. Tina Polsky.

She'll be the third woman in the state's history to lead the chamber.

Florida Democrats are demanding that a state senator resign and a special election be held after a prosecutor charged a former Republican legislator with fraud related to a razor-thin Miami-Dade County race last year.

The Suncoast Parkway would join U.S. 19 and extend north, and a new road would be built between Polk and Collier counties as part of other changes proposed to the three planned toll-road projects.

Neither chamber's measure contains lawsuit protections for health care providers, but Sen. Jeff Brandes, who sponsored the Senate version, says they will addressed in separate legislation.

Host Bradley George and Zac Anderson of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune have a wide-ranging conversation that touches on the new leaders of the state legislature as well as the amendments approved by voters in November.