{"id":224367,"date":"2026-04-09T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224367\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:44:09","slug":"florida-legislature-announces-that-there-will-be-no-special-session-next-week-as-states-budget-is-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224367\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida legislature announces that there will be no special session next week as state&#8217;s budget is uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There won&#8217;t be a special session to work on the budget next week,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/florida-legislature\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> legislative leaders<\/a> announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, and Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, sent separate memos to their members alerting them they won&#8217;t need to travel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/tallahassee\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tallahassee<\/a> next week.<\/p>\n<p>When the regular session ended March 13 without a budget deal, &#8220;mid-April&#8221; was eyed as a likely time to return for lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>But discussions between the chambers on allocations \u2013 top-line budget numbers \u2013 that are needed to embark on formal negotiations on the final spending plan, have so far failed to result in an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I believe we are making great progress, it will not be necessary for you to return to Tallahassee before the special session called by Governor DeSantis. We will share a schedule for that special session as soon as possible,&#8221; Albritton wrote in his memo.<\/p>\n<p>Perez called the &#8220;external speculation&#8221; of a special session next week &#8220;not accurate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we have an update on the timing of the budget, we will notify you,&#8221; Perez stated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/ron-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> has already called a special session for the week of April 20 to redraw congressional districts.<\/p>\n<p>During the regular session, budget talks stalemated largely on the overall size of the spending plan. The House preferred a cut from the current budget and passed a $113.6 billion proposal, while the Senate passed a $115 billion plan.<\/p>\n<p>A budget must be in place by July 1, the start of the fiscal year, to avoid a partial state government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There won&#8217;t be a special session to work on the budget next week, legislative leaders announced Wednesday. House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,9129,100,29,4215,2582,412,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-224367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-house","11":"tag-florida-legislature","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-florida-senate","14":"tag-government-shutdown","15":"tag-ron-desantis","16":"tag-tallahassee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224367","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=224367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}