FSBA Session Spotlight — April 25, 2017

2017 Legislative Session, Advocacy, Budget, FSBA Session Spotlight, In the News, Legislation

In an unprecedented move, the House Appropriations Committee passed their “continuation” budget and related bills this morning. This continuation budget is basically the same budget passed for the current year with funding added for “workload” (for education, this mainly means funding to support student enrollment growth) and most funding removed for member supported local projects.…

FSBA Session Spotlight — April 24, 2017

2017 Legislative Session, Budget, FSBA Session Spotlight, In the News, Legislation

As we reported earlier this evening, there appears to be a breakdown in the budget negotiations between House Speaker Corcoran and Senate President Negron.  The two leaders have been working to come to agreement on the allocation that would be available to each Budget Conference Committee so that these Committees could then begin to settle the differences between…