Ultimately, Republicans shut down multiple amendments trying to take the tuition-related provisions out of the bill. Republican Sens. Jennifer Bradley, of Fleming Island, and Alexis Calatayud, of Miami, did vote with Democrats for an amendment on tuition filed by Jones.

SB 334, filed by Sen. Joe Gruters of Sarasota, would give patients the right to grow two pot plants at home for personal consumption. It also contemplated changes to the hemp market, but the sponsor withdrew the bill, telling POLITICO Florida Playbook the bill would come back as strictly a home grow measure.

The Senate Appropriations Committee has cleared legislation named for President Donald Trump that would empower Florida law enforcement to administer immigration law. Sen. Joe Gruters, one of President Donald Trump’s top allies in Florida, carried the bill.

State Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, was elected treasurer of the Republican National Committee behind a Trump endorsement. Gruters formally won the election at the committee’s winter meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 17 after running unopposed.

State Senator Joe Gruters joins Jim DeFede from D.C., where he will attend President-elect Trump's inauguration.

The measure would seem a premptive strike at a growing industry. No food engineered to include vaccines are approved for use in the U.S., but research using mRNA technology goes back several years.

Even as DeSantis called the new bill "weaker," legislative Republicans pushed their legislation through the committee process Monday.

Florida lawmakers passed an immigration bill that was panned by Gov. Ron DeSantis and gaveled out of their special session on Tuesday.

Florida lawmakers passed a sweeping immigration bill Tuesday, setting aside half a billion dollars in public funds to help carry out President Donald Trump 's crackdown on those in the country illegally.

State Senator Joe Gruters joins CBS News Miami's Jim DeFede from Washington, D.C., where he will attend Monday’s Trump inauguration. The two discuss the Trump transition, as well as Governor DeSantis’ appointment of Ashley Moody to fill the Senate seat being vacated by Marco Rubio,

DeSantis continued to decry the legislature’s efforts as weaker than his own plan, which was rejected yesterday.

Sen. Joe Gruters has won election as Treasurer for the Republican National Committee (RNC) without opposition. President-elect Donald Trump endorsed Gruters in December, support that appeared to clear the field.