TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The tentative budget deal Florida’s legislative leaders made last week has “blown up,” according to a memo from House Speaker Daniel Perez.

Florida’s 2025 session is already in overtime, as Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton have been unable to agree on a budget, the only required duty the Legislature must complete.

The disintegration of the leaders’ deal on a budget framework means the legislative session will be pushed even longer. On Friday, the last scheduled day of the session, lawmakers approved a resolution to extend the session until June 6.

Now, the House intends to extend the session “through the end of June,” Perez said in his memo. But the Senate is only planning to extend further if it becomes necessary, according to a spokesperson.

In order for lawmakers to pass a budget in time, it would need to be completed by June 27 and voted on by June 30. State law requires a 72-hour public review period before the budget’s final passage.

The latest budget update comes after Gov. Ron DeSantis this week announced he would likely veto the House’s plan for a sales tax cut, saying “any Florida last tax package is going to be dead on arrival.” The governor, who has railed in recent months against House leaders, has said a sales tax cut would benefit out-of-state tourists more than it would help Floridians.

DeSantis has also framed the sales tax cut as conflicting with his plan to cut property taxes, an assertion that Perez said is false.

Perez has championed the sales tax cut, but Albritton has been more hesitant.

Last week, Albritton said “as part of our agreement with the House,” the Senate would take up a tax relief package that includes $2.8 billion in cuts.

Perez said $2.5 billion would be a recurring cut, and that $1.6 billion of that would be for sales tax. Announcing the outline of a deal last week, Perez said it was “better to get it right than to do it fast.”

In his memo Friday, Perez expressed disappointment that Albritton would “no longer bring the House’s historic tax proposal to the Senate floor.“

”As I’m sure you can appreciate, this blew up the framework for the budget deal we had negotiated,” Perez said in the memo.

Albritton sent a memo to senators Friday that noted that DeSantis had said an across-the-board sales tax cut would be “dead on arrival.”

Albritton said senators also have concerns about the cut, “and instead favor targeted tax relief that benefits growing families and seniors aging with dignity.”

Albritton’s memo didn’t directly say that he had gone back on the framework he agreed to with House leaders.

But he did say he wanted a tax package that “is sustainable for the long term and leaves room in our balanced budget for the voters to consider meaningful property tax relief.”

A change to Florida’s property taxes would need to be approved by at least 60% of voters in a future election. Lawmakers have the ability to put a proposed amendment on the ballot for people to vote on but didn’t pass any proposal to do so this year.

Perez has launched a special committee to consider property tax proposals for the 2026 election, saying DeSantis’ office didn’t provide any specific plan.

But DeSantis has dismissed that effort, saying, “You don’t convene a 37-person committee when you’re trying to get something done.”

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—Times/Herald Tallahassee bureau reporter Ana Ceballos contributed to this report.

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