TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 Florida lawmakers announced that they have reached an agreement on a special session on the budget, which is set to begin on May 12, and end on May 29, according to a series of releases Thursday.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Florida lawmakers announced that they have reached an agreement on a special session on the budget
\n
It is set to begin on May 12, and end on May 29
\n
Perez praised the fact that the projected budget is due to be lower than that of the previous year\u2019s for the second year in a row<\/p>\n
Both Florida Senate President Ben Albritton and Speaker of the House Daniel Perez announced the session, stating that negotiators from each chamber reached an agreement on joint allocations.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Perez praised the fact that the projected budget is due to be lower than that of the previous year\u2019s for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am pleased to announce that, for the second consecutive year, our budget will reduce overall government spending while responsibly directing taxpayer dollars toward essential priorities,\u201d Perez wrote in the memo.<\/p>\n
Perez also noted that the budget bills under consideration during the special session were those passed by the House during the regular session.<\/p>\n
The framework for the joint allocations that were agreed upon include $560 million for Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, $1.38 billion for Agriculture and Natural Resources, and $6.68 billion for higher education, with a further $16.2 billion agreed upon for PreK-13 education.<\/p>\n
The total joint allocations are $51.98 billion, although further spending will be agreed upon during the special session.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 Florida lawmakers announced that they have reached an agreement on a special session on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4996,3140,113,28,2287,115,139,20453,99,232,234,233,135],"class_list":["post-243815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-app-education","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-education","tag-florida","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-phillip-stucky","tag-politics","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243815","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=243815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}