Florida’s legislators and the local projects each sponsored

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Terms version 1, effective October 17, 2026.

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• how we present the budget: the plain-language names we give agencies and revenue sources, and the rows that reconcile each agency’s programs to its total;
• the local-project data: how we match each project in the budget to its House and Senate request forms, sponsors, recipient, city and county; the type we assign each project; and how we match vetoes to projects and counties;
• what we calculate from the sources: funded projects and dollars by legislator, project money by city and per resident, and the county file that brings together tax rates, school funding and projects;
• the choice and arrangement of what goes in each file, and its “#” header notes.

The figures themselves are the State’s, and facts aren’t anyone’s to own. The license applies to our work only as far as we hold rights in it.

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• Budget amounts, agencies, programs, positions and the ten-year totals (Agencies, Programs, Ten-year history): the General Appropriations Act (HB 5001-E, Chapter 2026-232), the Legislature’s Fiscal Analysis in Brief and Transparency Florida, public records of the State of Florida.
• Member projects: titles, recipients, request-form numbers and amounts requested (Local projects, Vetoes): the General Appropriations Act and the Florida House and Senate request forms, public records of the State of Florida.
• Legislators’ names, chambers, districts and parties (Legislators): the Florida House of Representatives and Senate.
• Vetoes (Vetoes): the Governor’s 2026 Veto List, a public record of the State of Florida.
• General Revenue by source (General Revenue by source): the General Revenue Estimating Conference of August 14, 2026, a public record of the State of Florida.
• County tax rates and school funding (Counties): the Florida Department of Revenue (DR-15DSS, calendar year 2026; TIP 25B05-05) and Department of Education (2026-27 FEFP Second Calculation), public records of the State of Florida.
• Population (Cities, Counties, Ten-year history): Florida’s official population estimates, prepared by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR), University of Florida. Credit BEBR.
• State taxes and population, all 50 states (50-state comparison): the U.S. Census Bureau (2025 Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections; Population Estimates, Vintage 2025), works of the U.S. government, not protected by copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105).

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