Overview
- After considering nearly 2,000 proposals, lawmakers agreed to about 235 measures and adjourned Sine Die without even entering formal budget negotiations.
- The Florida Chamber highlighted gains it says strengthen the business climate, citing public‑sector collective bargaining changes, impact fee clarifications, a uniform building permit application, expanded nursing education grants, Live Local workforce housing provisions, and a data‑center competitiveness framework.
- Technology policy advanced unevenly as utility consumer protections for data centers passed with business‑friendly carve‑outs, while the House declined to take up a Senate‑approved “AI Bill of Rights.”
- Education and public safety saw mixed results with a Senate‑passed fix for voucher program issues left idle in the House and the campus “guardian” program expanded as the push to let people under 21 buy long guns again failed.
- Several high‑profile priorities remain unresolved, including divergent property‑tax plans, a Senate‑approved rollback of last year’s growth‑management law that stalled in the House, and a House‑passed medical‑malpractice change that received no Senate hearing.