{"id":244644,"date":"2026-04-24T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244644\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:19:19","slug":"florida-lawmakers-prepare-for-special-sessions-on-budget-redistricting-newsradio-wfla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244644\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Lawmakers Prepare for Special Sessions on Budget, Redistricting | NewsRadio WFLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Tallahassee, FL) &#8211; Florida\u2019s legislative leaders have reached an agreement on an outline for a state budget for the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, state lawmakers will return to Tallahassee for a two-week special session beginning May 12th, to work out the details.  <\/p>\n<p>DeSantis also called them back to Tallahassee next week, April 28th, to redraw the state\u2019s congressional map. <\/p>\n<p>The governor also wants them to pass AI regulations and to allow parents to opt their kids out of school immunization requirements&#8230;all issues lawmakers refused to pass during the regular session.<\/p>\n<p>A special session to pass a proposal for the November ballot that would lower property taxes has not been called, and DeSantis has released no proposal outline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Tallahassee, FL) &#8211; Florida\u2019s legislative leaders have reached an agreement on an outline for a state budget for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[9688,9935,28,5623,84225,107749,232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-244644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-agreement","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-lawmakers","12":"tag-sessions","13":"tag-state-lawmakers","14":"tag-tallahassee","15":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","16":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244644","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=244644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}