{"id":243536,"date":"2026-04-23T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243536\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:36:09","slug":"florida-officials-announce-special-session-to-discuss-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243536\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida officials announce special session to discuss state budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida officials announce special session to discuss state budget<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"WESH<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUpdated: 1:29 PM EDT Apr 23, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFlorida officials will hold a Special Session in May to discuss the state budget, according to documents obtained by WESH 2. The documents said the House and Senate have reached an agreement on allocations and will conduct a special session from May 12 through May 29. With the clock ticking toward the midterm elections in November, the governor has set Tuesday, April 28, as the new start date for a redistricting special session. He initially scheduled the special session to begin on April 20.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Florida officials will hold a Special Session in May to discuss the state budget, according to documents obtained by WESH 2. <\/p>\n

The documents said the House and Senate have reached an agreement on allocations and will conduct a special session from May 12 through May 29. <\/p>\n

With the clock ticking toward the midterm session in November, the governor has set Tuesday, April 28, as the new start date for a redistricting special session. <\/p>\n

He initially scheduled the special session to begin on April 20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida officials announce special session to discuss state budget Updated: 1:29 PM EDT Apr 23, 2026 Editorial Standards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9688,107394,19260,85434,1327,28,30,29,58234,5052,13204,7938,56477,21760,4214,6870,56118,70696],"class_list":{"0":"post-243536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-agreement","9":"tag-allocation","10":"tag-april","11":"tag-clock","12":"tag-document","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-headlines","15":"tag-florida-news","16":"tag-florida-official","17":"tag-house","18":"tag-march","19":"tag-may","20":"tag-midterm-election","21":"tag-november","22":"tag-senate","23":"tag-special-election","24":"tag-special-session","25":"tag-state-budget"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243536","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=243536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}