Christine Jordan SextonApril 24, 20195min316
Hospital reimbursements and key issues for the Agency for Persons with Disabilities have yet to be worked out.
Tag: budget conference
Christine Jordan SextonApril 24, 2019
Danny McAuliffeApril 24, 2019
3min351
'We still have a very good per-student increase.'
Jim RosicaApril 24, 2019
4min246
"The reality is, maybe they have not done things right in the past."
Jim RosicaApril 24, 2019
4min358
The Senate is so far acquiescing to the House's relative pittance.
Danny McAuliffeApril 23, 2019
6min443
The conference committees will meet through Thursday evening.
Danny McAuliffeMarch 26, 2019
7min773
Big-ticket differences don’t necessarily mean disaster, he says.
Ana CeballosMarch 3, 2018
2min337
Budget conference chairs are now ironing out funding differences between the House and Senate dealing with a wide-range of policy issues. Chairs Sen. Rob Bradley and Rep. Carlos Trujillo are figuring out funding for beach restoration, land acquisition and water projects. Currently, the state Legislature is split over nearly $172 million on appropriations for programs funded through Florida […]
Jim RosicaMarch 1, 2018
2min303
Senate Appropriations Chairman Rob Bradley told reporters Thursday “major (budget) issues are still unresolved” but “we’re having great communications” with the House. “It’s been a very smooth process,” he said. No doubt helping matters is the relative closeness of the two chambers in terms of total spending for next year. The House and Senate went […]
Jim RosicaFebruary 28, 2018
2min235
The good news out of the first meeting of the Legislature’s general government budget conference, held Wednesday night, was how close the House and Senate already are. A relatively small gulf of about $9.2 million separated the two budgets, worth roughly $2 billion each, from the House Government Operations & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee, and the Senate […]
Jim RosicaApril 29, 2017
5min384
Don’t expect any movement in the budgets for Enterprise Florida and VISIT FLORIDA at the conference committee level. “I’m authorized to negotiate quite a few things in this budget and there’s a few things I’m not, and those would be among the things I’m not,” said Sen. Jeff Brandes, the St. Petersburg Republican chairing the […]