Sen. Kelli Stargel

The Florida Legislature has a little more than a week to decide on several initiatives, including teacher pay raises and how to spend federal money received from the American Rescue Plan.

It includes increased money to address affordable housing, as well as funds to repair the former Piney Point processing plant.

State senators Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, and Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland each are seeking state money to build new courthouses in their respective counties.

Under the measure, approved by the Senate Health Policy Committee, “athletic teams or sports designated for females, women or girls may not be open to students of the male sex.”

They expressed concerns that his $96.6 billion budget might be too ambitious and warn about the damage done to the economy due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A proposed law that would establish parents’ authority to have more direct control over their children’s education and health care was approved by a...

House and Senate education budget writers have released competing proposals for teacher salary increases, a top priority of Gov. Ron DeSantis that is…

Sen. Kelli Stargel has politics running through her veins. Stargel’s great-great-great grandfather Aaron Jernigan served on the Florida House of…

A Senate committee Thursday approved a bill that would require hospitals to give advance notice to doctors before closing obstetrical departments,...

Senators could soon be voting on a measure prohibiting certain organizations from using public funds for litigation against the state. The proposal’s...

Deciding who is owed what after a divorce can be chaotic. But lawmakers want to bring order to the process through math. The Senate’s alimony reform...