{"id":291136,"date":"2026-05-31T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291136\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:04:08","slug":"special-session-begins-this-week-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291136\/","title":{"rendered":"Special session begins this week in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLORIDA \u2014 Lawmakers are returning to Tallahassee on Monday for another special session, this one to discuss property taxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/05\/29\/lawmakers-approve-florida-budget-of--114-5-billion.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It comes after they passed the state budget last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis says he would like to see legislation that will gradually phase out some property taxes on homes with the homestead exemption.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed plan would do this by giving a $150,000 exemption followed by a $250,000 exemption a few years later.<\/p>\n<p>But the proposal would only apply to people who have owned their home for at least five years.<\/p>\n<p>So, people who have moved to Florida recently would not see the tax exemption immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. DeSantis believes this will be a big financial relief for families. But critics argue that losing that tax money will hurt essential services in cities and counties.<\/p>\n<p>If lawmakers pass a measure, it would still need Florida voters\u2019 approval on the November ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLORIDA \u2014 Lawmakers are returning to Tallahassee on Monday for another special session, this one to discuss property&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3140,28,139,99,275,232,234,233,135],"class_list":["post-291136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291136","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=291136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}