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.

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

The veto pledge capped a dramatic few days in which Republican legislators publicly criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis and portrayed themselves as truer allies of President Trump.

Florida lawmakers passed an immigration bill that was panned by Gov. Ron DeSantis and gaveled out of their special session on Tuesday. The Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy Act – known by the acronym TRUMP Act – is sponsored by Sen.

Sen. Jason Pizzo, D-Miami, noted Tuesday that DeSantis didn’t hold accountable a state road contractor after one of its employees, a Honduran immigrant in the country illegally, killed Pinellas Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Hartwick at a construction site.

In defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Republican-led Florida Legislature passed a bill late Tuesday night anointing Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson as the state’s chief immigration officer and zapping millions of dollars from the governor’s office for immigration enforcement.

The Florida Legislature still must send the bill to him before he acts. Here’s what to watch for in the coming days.

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

DeSantis said his office was not involved in discussions about the bill that passed Tuesday, which he called “weak, weak, weak.”

An immigration enforcement bill passed by Florida lawmakers Tuesday is headed for the veto pen of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Legislature said its bill, approved late Tuesday, does what President Donald Trump wants as far as cracking down on illegal immigration.

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.