Florida lawmakers miss budget deadline, extending legislative session
Florida's regular 60-day legislative session will end Friday with no budget agreement, ensuring that legislators will have to return next week or later to pass a budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
House Speaker Richard Corcoran told his House colleagues Tuesday night that they would have to stay later or come back in a special session.
"Everyone is all hands on deck trying to get it done," Corcoran said, warning that Gov. Rick Scott would say, "Enough is enough. Come back and get your work done. Stop acting like juveniles."
He said that under the best-case scenario, lawmakers would finish on Saturday. But Monday is more realistic, he said.
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