{"id":3627,"date":"2025-10-15T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3627\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:28:11","slug":"jim-boyd-named-florida-senate-president-designate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3627\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Boyd named Florida Senate president designate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Sen. Jim Boyd was named president-designate of the Florida Senate during a ceremony in the Senate Chamber on Tuesday afternoon, positioning the Bradenton Republican to lead the chamber after next year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Boyd will succeed current Senate President Ben Albritton and serve alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2025\/10\/09\/florida-house-names-sam-garrison-speaker-designate\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2025\/10\/09\/florida-house-names-sam-garrison-speaker-designate\/\">Rep. Sam Garrison, who will lead the House<\/a> during the 2027 and 2028 legislative sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incoming Senate president said fiscal responsibility will remain a top priority under his leadership, emphasizing the need for continued oversight of state spending despite Florida\u2019s strong financial position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think we always should look at the way we spend taxpayers\u2019 money,\u201d Sen. Boyd said. \u201cWe fortunately have had good financials as a state, but we always have to pay attention to our expenditures. Coming up with a budget forecast we are facing for the next several years, I think it\u2019s more important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Boyd\u2019s appointment comes as Florida prepares for upcoming budget challenges and legislative priorities that will shape the state\u2019s direction through the remainder of the decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Sen. Jim Boyd was named president-designate of the Florida Senate during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4218,1442,2811,28,4215,2161,4216,4217,4219,4214,232,234,233,4220],"class_list":{"0":"post-3627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-ben-albritton","9":"tag-cody-butler","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-senate","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-jim-boyd","15":"tag-poltics","16":"tag-republicans","17":"tag-senate","18":"tag-tallahassee","19":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","20":"tag-tallahassee-news","21":"tag-voting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","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=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}