unveiled\u00a0his proposal for new congressional maps<\/a> on Monday, which, if approved, could potentially give Republicans an advantage in Florida\u2019s U.S. House races this November.<\/p>\n\u201cWe’re in a situation where, you know, we believe there’s defects in the current map,” DeSantis said during an August 2025 press conference. “We also believe that the districts are malapportioned because of the explosive growth that we’ve seen in the state of Florida. And so, I think even if they don’t do a new census, even if they don’t revise the current census, I still think it is appropriate to be doing it.”<\/p>\n
State lawmakers will also discuss the Medical Freedom Act, which the Senate passed during the regular session. The act creates exemptions from vaccine requirements for children attending K-12 schools. It also authorizes ivermectin, a medication used to treat parasitic infections, to be sold without a prescription. <\/p>\n
The bill would also make permanent Florida\u2019s existing ban on discrimination based on a person\u2019s mRNA vaccination status, and protects Floridians from forced vaccinations during emergencies, according to a memo sent to lawmakers this month.<\/p>\n
Florida Senate President Pro Tempore Jason Brodeur\u00a0said he plans to file legislation similar to Senate Bill 482, known as the Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights. The bill would create consumer protection against AI, especially threats to child safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to addressing the issues in the Governor\u2019s call for this special session which includes medical freedom and AI legislation, both of which passed the Senate during regular session,” Brodeur said in a statement to Spectrum News.<\/p>\n
Lawmakers will be in Tallahassee starting Tuesday afternoon to discuss and eventually vote on the proposed congressional map. A separate special session is scheduled next month to finalize the state budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Florida lawmakers are working out of the State Capitol this week with plans to talk about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3140,274,1015,28,30,29,115,139,99,232,278,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-249533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-emma-delamo","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-tallahassee","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249533","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=249533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}