Ana Goñi-Lessan - News Service of Florida

Lawmakers will now return to Tallahassee on April 28, a week after the original date.

The Florida Department of Education appointed a financial board to both Union and Glades counties' school districts to help with "operations, management and finances and to make recommendations for financial recovery."

There have been about 1,500 wildfires in the first three months of 2026, and the state is on track to surpass the last two years' records. The busiest part of the fire season is April, May and June.

The new law will require judges to immediately remand someone found guilty of a dangerous crime into custody pending sentencing or further proceedings without the possibility of release on bond.

Months after the state’s auditor general found a "myriad of accountability challenges" with Florida’s K-12 school voucher system, the Legislature failed to pass a bill providing better oversight of the $4 billion program.

Participants in the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program will be able to access funds to cover their HIV medication after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Tuesday providing stopgap funding mitigating cuts imposed earlier this month.

In this year's legislative session, a measure that would have made a byproduct of kratom called 7-OH illegal was removed from the bill and replaced with an entirely different drug, nitrous oxide.

This comes after Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, chair of the State Immigration Enforcement Council, said immigrants who aren't criminals should be able to stay in the country under certain conditions.

Florida lawmakers put forward just under 2,000 bills and resolutions as they entered the 2026 legislative session.