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The cuts meant about 12,000 Floridians lost coverage, including for the most popular HIV drug on the market, Bictarvy.
The one pill a day regimen costs more than $4,000 a month without insurance.
Esteban Wood is director of legislative affairs at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
Lawmakers agreed on a budget that puts back money for low-income people who need the drug.
It now awaits the governor's signature.
For NPR News, I'm Carrie Sheridan in Tampa.
DeSantis wanted lawmakers to work on a medical freedom bill during the four-day session, but the Speaker of the Florida House, Republican Daniel Perez, says he won't bring the vaccine issue to the floor.
He says he's uncomfortable with the idea of children being in school without protection against diseases like measles and polio.
Aubrey Jewett is a political science professor at the University of Central Florida.
The House also declined to take up another DeSantis priority, AI protections, but they will consider congressional redistricting.
For NPR News, I'm Carrie Sheridan in Tampa.
Almost 10,000 women in Florida have received temporary disabled parking permits, including Destiny Light.
You're carrying around a whole baby.
The plaintiff in the case is Olivia Keller, a 49-year-old woman who uses a motorized wheelchair and says parking is already hard to find.
People with disabilities are kind of an afterthought.
The accommodations that we receive and are required to receive by law aren't really looked at as needs.