With a Republican supermajority in both chambers (28-12 in the Senate and 85-35 in the House), the priorities of the 2023 Session will take on added dimensions as bills and appropriation requests are filed by members in the coming weeks. To date, 64 bills have been filed. In a break with past rules, the House appropriations projects are not required to have bill numbers.
The interim committee week schedule includes three weeks in January and three weeks in February, with the first week coinciding with the Governor and Lieutenant Governor inaugurations.
BUDGET REPORT Florida’s annual budget report, which is released near the end of the calendar year, tracks the State’s spending for the previous two years and estimates the totals for the current fiscal year. Revenues for the current year are higher than projected. For FY 2022-2023, the General Revenue appropriation totals $41,977,522,928 and the Trust Funds totals $68,198,822,862, which together sets a new record of spending at $110,176,345,790.