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wo former local elected officials and a nonprofit group filed suit Thursday in Leon County Circuit Court against the property tax cut amendment placed on the November ballot by lawmakers, alleging it is misleading.

Florida filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, on Monday, becoming the first state to do so amid claims its ChatGPT product aided acts of violence.

Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a $114.5 billion spending plan Friday, wrapping up a special session to complete the budget more than two months after they failed to do so during the regular session. The Senate voted unanimously in favor of the budget and the House voted 99-6 for the plan, but the vast support for the measure belied the tense process to produce it.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has grown frustrated at pieces of his agenda being thwarted by the GOP-led House, and lashed out at Speaker Daniel Perez on Thursday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on Monday a new congressional map, reworking 21 of Florida’s 28 U.S. House districts. While Districts 1-7 are unchanged, many of the others are significantly altered, some in ways that will leave incumbents and potential candidates scrambling to see in which district they’ll run ahead of the qualifying week that starts June 8.