Florida Budget Clock Set For 5:37 P.M. Friday Vote

June 17, 2015

After months of sparring and a nearly three-week special session, lawmakers will be able to vote early Friday evening on a $78.7 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The budget was sent to lawmakers and other state officials at 5:37 p.m. Tuesday, starting a 72-hour review period before the House and Senate can vote on it.

Negotiators finished working out details of the 438-page spending plan late Monday night, but it still needed to be compiled Tuesday.

A vote Friday would come one day before the scheduled end of a special session that started June 1. The budget then will go to Gov. Rick Scott, who can use his line-item veto power to delete spending proposals.

The state fiscal year starts July 1.

by The News Service of Florida

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