The bill would create a sales tax holiday for customers who use virtual currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and USD Coin.

Equality Florida, the state’s LGBTQ civil rights organization, is demanding Florida lawmaker State Rep. Webster Barnaby formally retract his words after he called transgender people “imps” and “mutants” and “demons.”

The Florida House could be poised to take up a bill that seeks to prevent transgender men and women from using bathrooms that don’t line up with their sex assigned at birth, after one Republican said Monday it’s “like we have mutants living among us on planet Earth.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would sign a six-week abortion ban if and when it came to fruition during a news briefing Wednesday discussing the proposed “Framework for Freedom” 2023-24 state budget.

Recounts in these razor-thin primary races resulted in no change to either outcome and the sorting-out of a handful of votes for GOP candidates.

A race for a Florida House of Representatives seat in Volusia County is pitting two state representatives against each other on Aug. 23.

A race for a Florida House of Representatives seat in Volusia County is pitting two state representatives against each other on Aug. 23.

Republican Rep. Webster Barnaby filed a bill on Wednesday titled the “Florida Heartbeat Act.” The legislation proposes banning abortions after doctors are able to detect fetal heartbeats.

A bill regarding abortion in Florida titled the “Florida Heartbeat Act” was filed by Florida Representative Webster Barnaby on Wednesday morning.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida schools competing for a high school athletic championship could be given an opportunity to address the crowd, including with a prayer, before the competition begins, under a bill approved by a House committee Wednesday. The bill would require the Florida High School Athletic Association to give each team an opportunity to address the crowd over a public announcement system for no more than two minutes each. It would apply to public and private schools, and Republican Rep. Webster Barnaby said that could include prayer. No one objected to the prayer that was said in the House of Representatives. Democratic Rep. Susan Valdes, a former Hillsborough County School Board member, said even at graduations, students sometimes veer away from their approved speeches.