The Duval County legislative delegation will be carrying a pair of pared-down proposals into the 2026 Legislative Session, both of which started more ambitiously than they ended up.

Ultimately, these measures to change consolidated government were reined in by the structure itself, with the scopes narrowed before state legislators heard them Wednesday.

One bill was previously envisioned as a path to set up a general counsel for the Duval County School Board.

That bill met resistance from the Council, whose members said it threatened the consolidated government model, ahead of voting against recommending the charter change to the delegation.

The controversy that a majority of the City Council couldn’t abide stemmed from whether DCSB could subvert the independent authority of the

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