Florida House and Senate leaders announced Thursday that they have agreed to spend about $52 billion in general revenue dollars in the next fiscal year on the state’s priorities, finally clearing the way for the Legislature to do the one thing it’s annually required to do: Pass a budget.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis says he wants to call the state Legislature back for a special session on property taxes. But he hasn’t yet put forward a plan and no date has been set for a session.

There are less than seven months until the November election, so where does the issue currently stand?

The Republican-controlled Legislature passed a bill prohibiting localities from implementing carbon-reduction policies like net-zero targets, carbon taxes and cap-and-trade programs.

Net zero refers to any program designed to achieve a balance between the total amount of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere with an equal amount removed from the atmosphere.

The bill passed 80-29 in the House and 24-12 in the Senate. Legislators voted almost entirely on party lines, with all Republicans except one, Rep. Alexis Calatayud, a Miami Republican, in favor, and all Democrats save one, Sen. Kimberly Daniels of Jacksonville, against.

The Florida governor is reaching the end of his current gig as the conduit for the MAGA agenda in the state of Florida. DeSantis will have to leave office in January when his second term is up and he is reportedly “begging” President Trump for a job in his administration. Specifically, DeSantis wants the open attorney general position, the job his state’s former attorney general, Pam Bondi, once held until Trump lost patience with what he apparently felt was her sluggish pace in investigating and prosecuting his political foes.

DeSantis is reportedly also interested in the Defense Department’s top job — watch out Pete Hegseth — and he’d even take a spot on the Supreme Court if the opportunity arises! But attorney general would do just fine, too, Axios reported in a new piece out this afternoon, citing six anonymous sources who were “briefed on the discussions.”

With nearly 40 new laws already approved so far this year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is now looking at another 20 that were sent to his desk.

In addition, DeSantis signed off on two other bills on Tuesday, meaning they will both go into effect on July 1.

Florida’s unemployment rate ticked up for the second consecutive month in February.

FloridaCommerce released the February jobless figure, which came in at 4.6%. That’s up from the January unemployment rate of 4.5%.

It’s also the second straight month the Florida unemployment figure was higher than the national rate. The U.S. figure for February was 4.4%, 0.2 percentage points below Florida’s.