On tonight’s program: A plan to term-limit school board members in Florida gets blowback from rural Republicans; It took some heavy negotiation, but a policing reform bill is now up and running in the Florida legislature; A move to expand the scope of practice for physicians’ assistants has been significantly watered down. Some say it’s a missed opportunity to expand access to health care; Big changes could be coming to Florida’s dysfunctional unemployment system; As Florida’s economy slowly recovers, there are more employers looking for workers, but a significant number of workers are still in need of jobs; And advancing through the legislature is a proposal to allow human paramedics to treat and transport police canines that are hurt in the line of duty.

On tonight’s program: Democrats, election supervisors and voting rights groups join in opposition to Florida’s proposed election law changes. But Republicans in the Legislature are forging ahead; Lots of politicians have been grousing about social media censorship. But a new survey suggests a lot of average folks in Florida don’t like those restrictions very much either; Lawmakers are working to clarify how non-emergency medical transportation for people who get benefits from both Medicare and Medicaid should be paid for; We speak with a disability rights advocate about a bill that would ban what are called “disability abortions”; And even though catastrophe was narrowly averted when an abandoned phosphate mine’s holding pond threatened to inundate nearby neighborhoods, the basic problem still has Florida officials flummoxed.

On tonight’s program: Police reform was off to a hot start as Florida lawmakers convened almost two months ago. But it seems the issue has lost steam as Session nears its end; Horse groups say a move to decouple parimutuels will leave thousands of people without a job; Whether by restriction or outright ban, a majority of Florida lawmakers appear ready to block scholastic sports participation of transgender girls and women; Fears of Venezuelan-type socialism taking over America is a hot talking point in some circles. But state legislatures like Florida’s could actually be moving in that direction by stripping authority from city and county governments; And traditional newspapers still derive a big chunk of their revenue from publishing public notices. That could could go away if the legislature removes the legal requirement and that has newspaper advocates worried.

On tonight’s program: Florida Democrats challenge their Republican colleagues in the Legislature on transgender sports and COVID misinformation; A veteran Capital Reporter gives his take on the Session so far; Environmentalists say a bill to boost communities’ resiliency to sea level rise and flooding could be a conversation starter on climate change; And it appears students and schools will get a break this year when it comes to those critical Florida standardized tests. The situation for teachers, though, may be a bit more - shall we say - fluid?

On tonight’s program: Florida’s bill to crack down on protests that police deem “violent” had been stalled, but is now on the move again; It’s the State of Florida versus the federal government over whether or not cruise ships can sail again. We’ll have a report on the legal battle; The high cost of insulin is leading people to make choices that could put their lives at risk; As the Florida Legislature considers a ban on transgender girls and women playing scholastic sports with other females, what are the emotional and psychological ramifications? We’ll talk with an expert in the field; And we get a preview of yet another casualty of the pandemic that is returning. Wrestlemania is back in Tampa.

On tonight’s program: Are Florida’s college and university students receiving a wide diversity of opinions and viewpoints in their classes? State lawmakers want to know; Despite frantic lobbying from affordable housing advocates, the Florida Legislature moves ahead to divert money from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to fighting sea level rise; Florida’s election districts are up for redrawing in the wake of last year’s U.S. Census. And the spirited debate about how that might happen is well underway; The Florida Retirement System remains in pretty good shape, say state officials, which is precisely the reason it needs to be changed now; Lawmakers are moving ahead with a plan to extend pandemic-era telehealth. But not everything is included; And we sit down with the last Democrat to serve as Florida governor to discuss his thoughts on the present political landscape.

On tonight’s program: With some good news from state revenue estimators, the Florida Legislature will start its budget negotiations; This could be the year the Florida Legislature bans seclusion for kids with disabilities. But the victory may be bitter for disability rights advocates, who also want a ban on the use of restraints for those kids; Advocates based in South Florida are blasting a bill now on the move in the state legislature that would protect the practice of sugarcane burning. The opponents charge it causes serious negative health impacts in nearby communities; Lawmakers say while a federal law raised the age to buy tobacco and vape products to 21, state legislation is needed to help enforce those rules; Florida’s senior U.S. Senator shares his thoughts before members of the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce. Including what he thinks of so-called “cancel culture”; And even though Florida is among a dozen states that hasn’t expanded Medicaid, some state lawmakers in both parties are looking to extend the program for new moms without health insurance.

On tonight’s program: The death of South Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings means a special election soon. We’ll have a preview; A bill banning transgender women from playing on women’s teams in scholastic sports is headed for the floor of the Florida House; The worry is that too many foreign adversaries are funneling research money through Florida’s colleges and universities so those countries can steal the fruits of that research. Florida lawmakers want to tighten up that process, but there are those who say it’s an overreaction; Legislators want Florida to create a tracking system for rape kits so victims can be better informed about what’s going on in their cases; Floridians from across the state come to the Capitol to speak in favor of a bill to do away with permanent alimony payments; And a total collapse of the massive holding pond at an abandoned Manatee County phosphate mine remains a possibility, even as many worry about the contaminated water being drained from the pond to prevent a collapse.

On tonight’s program: The League of Women Voters is out with a report calling for an investigation into Florida’s largest tax credit scholarship funding group along with its relationship with the lawmakers who support a voucher merger bill; Florida lawmakers are thinking about sweeping funds away from affordable housing programs; Florida opens up its COVID-19 vaccinations to every grownup in the state; When it comes to local zoning issues, there are some in the Florida Legislature who believe those decisions should be made in Tallahassee; And while some lawmakers are pushing to extend Florida’s marijuana programs, others want to shrink it. It’s a move some lawmakers say they just don’t understand.

On tonight’s program: The partisan debate over whether Florida’s elected school board members should be paid is heating up in the state capitol; Governor DeSantis is calling on the Biden administration to change its new immigration policies; Florida’s so-called “anti-riot bill” has cleared the House. Now it’s the state Senate’s turn; Members of Florida’s LGBTQ community fear a “Parents Bill of Rights” measure will actually be a license to discriminate; We have an in-depth follow-up to yesterday’s breaking news about the U.S. Supreme Court turning aside Florida’s assertion that it’s being denied its fair share of the water in the Apalachicola River basin; And cameras could soon be used to enforce speed limits in school zones.