{"id":153557,"date":"2026-02-12T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153557\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:02:06","slug":"florida-lawmakers-on-track-for-another-long-session-amid-budget-proposal-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153557\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lawmakers on track for another long session amid budget proposal delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; It\u2019s starting to look like Florida lawmakers won\u2019t get their constitutional obligation done during the legislative session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than halfway through the regular legislative session, there still isn\u2019t a budget proposal from either chamber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Senate Appropriations Chair sent a memo to senators saying they are waiting to roll out their proposal when the House does. The earliest that will happen is next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\">More Florida politics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last year\u2019s legislative session went 105 days after disagreements over the budget. The legislature\u2019s only constitutional obligation is to pass a balanced budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; It\u2019s starting to look like Florida lawmakers won\u2019t get their constitutional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[9935,1721,1442,28,5052,5623,6322,7928,4214,914,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-153557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-budget","tag-capital-city","tag-cody-butler","tag-florida","tag-house","tag-lawmakers","tag-legislative-session","tag-proposal","tag-senate","tag-state","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}