Tallahassee — The Conference Committee of Appropriations Chairs for the Florida Legislature accepted mutual offers on a package of implementing bills during a June 13, 2025 meeting, advancing language on statewide implementing matters, collective bargaining, higher education and state employee insurance, retirement, natural resources, and health-care implementing language.

The agreement came after House and Senate staff described their respective offers. Representative McClure opened the meeting and recognized staff to explain the House offers and later moved to allow staff to make technical and conforming changes to the agreed language; the motion was adopted.

Why it matters: The conference committee’s acceptances finalize compromise language the two chambers will send forward as part of the budget and implementing package. Those implementing provisions resolve open technical and policy details that determine how enacted appropriations and statutory changes are applied across state agencies, universities and health programs.

Most important facts: The Senate accepted the House offers on Senate Bill 2502 (statewide implementing bill), Senate Bill 2504 (collective bargaining), House Bill 5015 (state group insurance and higher education implementing bill) and the House’s sales-tax reductions offer (listed in the record as HB7031). The House accepted Senate offers on Senate Bill 7022 (State Administered Retirement Systems), Senate Bill 2506 (natural resources, with a new land-acquisition provision noted), Senate Bill 2514 (health-care implementing bill) and the Health and Human Services implementing offer that the transcript identifies as including modified iConnect language.

House staff framed the offers: Michael Wilson summarized the House offers on SB 2502 and SB 2504 as resolving outstanding implementing issues in agriculture and natural resources, state administration budgets and collective bargaining. William Fontaine summarized higher education provisions in the House offer, saying the House proposed allowing universities to include deferred building maintenance costs in a university’s carry‑forward spend plan and offering language related to procurement and capital-outlay projects assumed by university boards of trustees. Brooke McKnight described the Senate’s health-care implementing positions and noted modified language related to iConnect (except for one line referenced as line 23).

Representative McClure moved “to allow staff to make technical and conforming changes,” and the committee adopted that motion.

Discussion versus decisions: Staff presentations and clarifying summaries comprised the discussion. The committee recorded formal acceptances by each chamber’s conferees, which the meeting transcript shows as mutual acceptance of the listed offers and a procedural direction to staff to finalize conforming edits. There were no roll-call votes recorded in the transcript.

Next steps and procedural notes: After the acceptances and the motion to allow technical edits, the committee adjourned. The transcript shows the chair directing staff to prepare the final text consistent with the adopted offers; the committee did not record additional deadlines or required external approvals in the meeting record.

Quotes: Representative McClure moved, “to allow staff to make technical and conforming changes.”

Ending: The conference committee’s agreement advances a bundle of implementing provisions that will be compiled into final conference language for the Legislature’s further action; staff were authorized to make the conforming technical edits described in the meeting.