Florida

Florida is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. It has 29 electoral votes and is a swing state.

State House
The Florida State House is composed of 120 members, each directly elected from a state house district. Members serve terms of two years, limited to four consecutive terms. Elections to all House seats occur during each even-numbered year.

The Florida House is charged with the passage of state legislation, known as bills, which, after concurrence by the Senate, are sent to the governor for consideration. Any House member may draft bills, which will ​then be assigned to the relevant House committee at the beginning of the next week. The number of bills any individual member may draft is unlimited; however, each bill requires 25 hours to draft.

There is a committee system in the Florida House. Committees hold specialized hearings on relevant bills. A House member must serve on at least 1 and at most 2 committees. If the member has a sufficient number of political points, they may choose to serve as the ranking member of their political party on at most 1 of their chosen committees.

Playable committees include: Appropriations; Tax and Fiscal Policy; Education; Health Care; Transportation, Infrastructure, Housing and Community Development; Judiciary, Public Safety, and Corrections; Commerce, Labor, and Career Development; Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources; Human Services.

Non-playable subcommittees include: Agriculture; Elections and General Government; Veteran Affairs and Homeland Security; Ethics.

A committee chair is the ranking member of the House's majority party within that committee. Above all other members of the House, a ​committee chair has the right of first review over any draft bill that falls within the purview of the committee. The committee chair may grant ​or refuse a hearing. If the committee chair refuses to grant a hearing on a bill, that bill can no longer advance. This is true even if the bill already passed through the Senate.

Once a bill is granted a committee hearing, all ranking and regular members on the committee have the right to offer amendments and have those amendments voted on. A tie or majority vote leads to adoption ​of an amendment. After the amendment process is complete, a final committee vote is held. A tie or majority vote allows the bill to advance to the floor of the full House. The entire committee phase takes ​one week. When a bill reaches the House floor, a hearing is held. Any member of the House may offer amendments, which are immediately voted on. When the amendment process is complete, a final floor vote is held. Upon passage by the House, a bill is sent either: (a) to the Senate, (b) ​to the governor, or (c) to conference report. The House floor phase takes one week.

If the House considers a Senate-approved bill but then passes an amended version, the bill must be sent for a conference report to adjust ​any discrepancies between the House and Senate versions. After that, both chambers must hold a floor vote on whether to approve the conference report.

State House Districts
Default mode (3/21/2022) has the state house extremely favor the Republican Party. 53 districts lean Republican by more than 15%. Six more lean Republican between 11-14%, and another seven lean Republican between 6-10%. 30 districts lean Democratic by more than 15%. Three districts lean Democratic between 11-14% and three more lean Democratic between 6-10%. A neutral election year produces a result that is 66R-36D with 18 tossups of which 14 lean Republican and 4 lean Democratic. In order to take control of the chamber, Democrats must win exactly seven districts that lean Republican between 6-10%.

State Senate
The Florida State Senate is composed of 40 members, each directly elected from a state senate district. Members serve terms of four years, limited to two consecutive terms. Elections are not staggered. Elections to all seats occur alongside the U.S. presidential election.

The Florida Senate is charged with the passage of state legislation, known as bills, which, after concurrence by the House, are sent to the governor for consideration. Any state senator may draft bills, which will then be assigned to the relevant Senate committee at the beginning of the next week. After a bill's hearing on the Senate floor, any senator may offer amendments, which are immediately voted on. When the amendment process is complete, a final floor vote is held.

If the Senate amends and passes a bill that began in the House, the bill will be sent for a conference report to adjust any discrepancies between the House and Senate versions. After that, both chambers must vote on whether to approve the conference report.

There is a committee system in the state senate. Committees hold specialized hearings on relevant bills.

A committee chair is the ranking member of the majority party within a committee. Above all other senators, a committee chair has the right of first review over any draft bill on an issue that falls within the purview of the committee. The committee chair may grant or refuse a hearing. If the committee chair refuses to grant a hearing on a bill, that bill can no longer advance. This is true even if the bill already passed through the House.

State Senate Districts
Default mode (3/21/2022) has the state senate extremely favor the Republican Party. 16 districts lean Republican by more than 15%. Six more districts lean Republican between 11-14%, and two more between 6-10%. 10 districts lean Democratic by more than 15%. Two districts lean Democratic between 11-14% and 6-10%. This produces a neutral election configuration of 24R-14D and two Democratic-leaning tossups. In order to win majority, Democrats need to win at least four districts that lean Republican 11% or more.

Governor
The governor of Florida is directly elected to terms of 4 years, limited to two consecutive terms. Elections to the governorship are held in even years opposite to U.S. presidential elections. The governor may sign into law or veto any state bill that has passed through both houses of the state legislature. The governor may also draft legislation and send it to the state legislature for consideration. Draft bills from the governor almost always begin in the House and have to withstand the regular committee process.