A record budget surplus, a purring state economy and a powerful, popular governor were not enough to bring a soft landing to the Florida Legislature's 60-day session Friday.

Lawmakers easily passed the spend-on-everything $71.3 billion budget and a host of heavy-lifting policy items -- from a state-energy plan to reforming juvenile boot camps to a massive affordable-housing push -- but they stalled on hundreds of bills as they spent most of the last day tangled over a proposed fix to the state's hurricane-hindered insurance market.

The reason: frightening new details of the cost of the insurance fix -- a nearly 200 percent increase for homeowners insured by Citizens Property Insurance -- in an election year.

Republicans, in charge of the Legislature, repeatedly acknowledged the ''tough medicine'' they were proposing and said they're not to blame for the effects of eight hurricanes that caused tens of billions of dollars' damage.

The GOP's political antidote: all the serious policy packages they passed. Hurricane preparedness. A massive environmental-lands purchase. A watered-down campaign finance-reform measure. Limitations on lawsuits that allowed people to collect huge sums from minimally liable companies. Strict limits on when governments can seize private property. And the governor's plan to boost curriculums in middle and high schools -- along with teacher-pay incentives.

Lawmakers from Miami-Dade spent hours cajoling and horse-trading with colleagues to win support for a $60 million tax subsidy to help the Florida Marlins build a new retractable roof stadium. The plan has failed since 2000 and was resurrected Wednesday in a surprise maneuver by Miami-Dade senators.

By late Friday, the Senate hadn't taken up its Marlins bill, while the House allowed a plan to give a similar tax break to the Orlando Magic basketball team sail through and go to the governor.

''I couldn't hold it anymore,'' said Rep. David Rivera, the Miami Republican who was leading the Marlins' fight in the House. The measure was stalled in the Senate, as President Tom Lee and other lawmakers tried to include in the Marlins bill similar tax breaks for their hometown sports teams.

The deal was also soured by a session-long rift between Republican senators that saw Miami Sen. Alex Villalobos ousted as the designated Senate president for 2008 by a group of dissident senators led by Miami Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla. With Hialeah Sen. Rudy Garcia as a go-between, the two put aside their rancor to propose the Marlins deal.

But Lee offered no hand to his Miami colleagues, and some members groused that he allowed his political ambitions to cloud his decisions about insurance and other issues: Lee is running for the Republican nomination for the chief financial officer, which oversees part of the insurance industry.

In the midst of the stalemate, Gov. Jeb Bush arrived in the Capitol Rotunda and buoyantly touted his accomplishments. He cheered nearly $400 million in new tax cuts, a sweeping economic development bill, his energy and hurricane-preparedness packages, accountability reforms for voucher schools and the creation of a new charter school approval board.

His two big losses: two proposed constitutional amendments, which voters would have decided in November, to scale back the state's law capping class sizes and to nullify a Florida Supreme Court ruling against the cornerstone of his first-term education policy: vouchersthat steer public money to private schools.

Bush also tacitly acknowledged that Republicans could be politically vulnerable for the property insurance crisis, though he laid the blame on the eight storms that cost tens of billions in losses.

They proposed dozens of measures to amend the state Constitution -- from requiring the pledge of allegiance to be read in schools to including one that would make it more difficult for anyone but the Legislature to change the Constitution.

A politically popular plan to allow voters to transfer property tax credits when they move to a new home died when counties balked at the price tag. A substitute plan to study the state's property tax system and offer recommendations also fell victim to the late-session plan.

The only property tax rollback that succeeded was a measure sponsored by Rep. Carlos Lopez Cantera, a freshman from Miami, which will ask voters to approve an additional $25,000 homestead exemption for the elderly poor. The proposal is expected to cost counties $36 million, and about $7 million a year in Miami-Dade.

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