This week’s legislative tracking shows relatively minimal movement on K-12 education bills, with no significant actions taken since the last update. However, board members should monitor several bills that could directly impact district operations: HB 0023/Educator Certifications and Training (Daley), which would require mass casualty incident training for all educators and is currently in the…
Committee weeks are officially underway! In addition to the filed bills you’ll see in the report from Dr. Kim McDougal at the Arrow Group, the Speaker of the House announced in a memorandum (sent to all school board members by FSBA last week) that several bills have been filed to address property tax reform, all…
May 13, 2025 Today the House held a session to vote to approve Concurrent Resolution HB 1633 Extension of the 2025 Legislative Session which extends the session until 11:59 pm on June 30, 2025. The Senate did not return to Tallahassee and currently indicates their intent to complete session by 11:59 pm on June 6,…
May 5, 2025 Overtime! Late Friday night, the House and Senate chambers announced an agreement to extend the 2025 Legislative Session until Friday, June 6, at 11:59 pm for the budget, conforming and implementing bills and the Rural Renaissance package, which is a priority of President. Albritton. The chambers also announced that the framework of…
April 28, 2025 We have completed Week 8, and as you have probably heard, the House and Senate have yet to agree on a tax package in policy or in number. Without an agreement on the tax package, the two sides are unable to agree to a total budget allocation. Both the House and Senate…
April 21, 2025 We have completed Week 7, and we continue to wait for the notice of the start of budget conferencing. We do not expect anything earlier than mid-week, due to all legislators having been home for the holiday weekend. Our team at GrayRobinson is once again providing us with our bill tracker. All of…
Week 6 saw the passage of the proposed House and Senate budgets being passed off of their respective chambers. The bills are now in the proper posture for budget conferencing. However, we do not expect budget conferencing to begin until after the end of Passover and Easter weekend. We will keep you posted on budget…
We have completed week 5, passing the halfway point of session. In case you have not yet seen it, the side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate Pre-K – 12 budget proposals was sent out last week and is available on our website. Both budget proposals passed out of their respective full committees and are expected…
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE – BUDGET Our team at GrayRobinson has once again put together a side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate proposed K-12 Education Budgets. These proposed budgets were presented in each chamber’s full budget/appropriations committees yesterday. We expect these proposals to pass their respective chamber floors next week. We will then await notification of…
March 31, 2025 We have completed week 4 of the 9 weeks of the Florida Legislative Session. This past week saw the House Pre-K – 12 Budget Subcommittee and Senate Pre-K – 12 Appropriations Committee release their proposed budgets. You may find the proposed implementing bills SB 7030 and SB 2510 as well as HB 5101 and…