House and Senate negotiators agreed Wednesday night to use $200 million in federal stimulus money to give Gov. Ron DeSantis part of his request for a gas-tax break, as they wrapped up more of a budget that will send the annual legislative session into overtime.
A budget that will top $100 billion is expected to be completed Thursday, with Trumbull and Stargel still hammering out differences on what are known as “conforming” bills, including a controversial environmental package .
Stargel and Trumbull said some uncertainty remains about how the state would distribute what negotiators are calling a “School Recognition Fund.” That $200 million fund would be used to reward school districts that did not require students to wear masks last year during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 12 districts are in Alachua, Brevard, Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Indian River, Leon, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach, Sarasota and Volusia counties.Gov. Ron DeSantis visits Jacksonville, announces plans to bring relief to Floridians at the gas pump
“We put money in the BSA to make sure that the cafeteria workers and the school bus drivers and everybody got to the $15 an hour,” Stargel said, noting that voters in 2020 approved raising the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026. “We know that that’s going to be hitting our state soon. We wanted to make sure that we … got ahead of that with these funds, while we have them.”Negotiators also released details about how federal stimulus money will be appropriated, which will include $1.
DeSantis has pushed for suspending the state’s roughly 25-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax for five months starting July 1, the start of the next fiscal year. Gas taxes help pay for transportation projects, and DeSantis proposed using stimulus money to make up revenue lost during the five-month period.
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