{"id":323283,"date":"2026-06-29T13:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323283\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:20:38","slug":"live-gov-desantis-signs-budget-at-news-conference-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323283\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Gov. DeSantis signs budget at news conference in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. \u2013 Gov. Ron DeSantis will sign the Florida budget on Monday at a news conference at 9 a.m. Monday in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">He will be at Hillsborough College to sign the budget ahead of the start of the fiscal year on July 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Florida lawmakers had to return for a special session to complete this year\u2019s budget, which was sent to the governor at $114.5 billion. DeSantis has said the budget will be less than that after he uses his line-item veto power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The signing also comes just days before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/2026\/06\/01\/here-are-all-the-new-florida-laws-taking-effect-next-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/2026\/06\/01\/here-are-all-the-new-florida-laws-taking-effect-next-month\/\">more than 100 laws are set to take effect in Florida on July 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">News4JAX will stream the news conference live. Press play above to watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorFrancine Frazier headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/team\/74FXRYG4SRF73N4NCLH5XQOVTU\/\" title=\"View Francine Frazier&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francine Frazier<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">A Jacksonville native and proud University of North Florida alum, Francine Frazier has been with News4Jax since 2014 after spending nine years at The Florida Times-Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2013 Gov. Ron DeSantis will sign the Florida budget on Monday at a news conference at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28,99,412,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-323283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-florida","tag-politics","tag-ron-desantis","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323283","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=323283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}