Pointing to a need to further brace the state against a potential recession, Gov. Ron DeSantis issued $3.13 billion in vetoes as he signed a record $109.9 billion budget for the fiscal year that will begin July 1.
Among the large vetoes were $650 million for a new 4,500-bed prison; $195 million for construction of a prison hospital; $50 million for construction of a courthouse for the new 6th District Court of Appeal; $35 million for a sports complex in Pasco County that was expected to become a spring-training facility for the Tampa Bay Rays; and $20 million a year that was included in a budget-related bill for a H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center facility in Pasco County.
With the vetoes freeing up additional money, the governor’s office estimated reserves topping $16 billion as the 2022-2023 fiscal year prepares to get underway.The conservative group Americans for Prosperity-Florida applauded DeSantis for cutting the money for the sports complex in Pasco County, which is home to Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby.
“The governor doesn’t like to mention this, but Florida’s budget includes nearly $40 billion in federal money this year,” incoming House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, said. “It’s unfortunate that despite having record cash to work with, we couldn’t do more for Floridians struggling with a housing crisis and global inflation.
“You see the big surplus, you see the tax cuts, you see the record number of line-item vetoes, you see a budget that is much more fiscally responsible than our competing states,” DeSantis said. “And yet even with all of that, this budget has the highest amount of per-student funding for K-12 schools in the history of the state of Florida.”
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