{"id":78873,"date":"2025-12-10T20:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/78873\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:32:18","slug":"gov-desantis-announces-117b-2026-27-florida-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/78873\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis announces $117B 2026-27 Florida budget proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> spoke Wednesday in downtown Orlando, announcing his proposals for a $117 billion 2026-27 state budget.<\/p>\n

The governor talked at length about the money he wants set aside for education items, such as $30.6 billion overall for K-12, $1.7 billion for early-child education, almost $2 billion for the state college system, $4 billion for the state university system, a fully-funded Bright Futures scholarship program and $1.56 billion for teacher-pay increases, up from $1.36 billion last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He again promised future action on property taxes, saying the Florida Legislature was \u201cworking on some good stuff\u201d and pointing to the growth of and taxes paid by commercial and non-homestead property owners as potentially being enough to offset an absence of homestead property taxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure that the taxpayers are getting breaks rather than have more spending, but put that aside, there\u2019s some communities, some counties, that are fiscally constrained. We have 32 of them and they\u2019re more rural and they don\u2019t have the economic engine that an Orlando has, or that a South Florida has, or a Tampa or a Jacksonville,” DeSantis said. \u201cI\u2019ve put in the budget \u2014 and I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s even going to be necessary \u2014 but I put in the budget enough money to completely, 100%, reimburse any homestead-property tax reduction for those fiscally-constrained counties.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSantis was joined at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts by Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas, Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Executive Director Dave Kerner and Florida State Guard Executive Director Mark Thieme.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s 2025-26 budget, which DeSantis signed in June, came out to $117.4 billion after vetoes<\/a>, as well as after being referred to as a $115.1 billion budget<\/a> during the signing ceremony.<\/p>\n

News 6 is updating this story to reflect the latest information.<\/p>\n

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