Bill No. S0318

Summary
Status
Sponsors
Texts
Votes
Amendments
Supplements
History
Summary

Bill ID

2053583

State

FL

Title

FL SB318 - Educational Scholarship Programs

Description

Creating a categorical fund for implementing the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; creating the educational enrollment stabilization program to provide supplemental state funds to address changes in full-time equivalent student enrollment; renaming the Hope Scholarship Program as the Hope Program; requiring an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization to provide a parent with certain information on scholarship programs; requiring an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization to create a single application for all educational scholarship programs, etc.

Bill Type

Bill

Category

ESAs, Tax Credit Vouchers, Change to Program, Program Expansion

Session

2026 Regular Session

Special Session

No Data Available

Status

Current Status

Engrossed

Status Last Updated

2026-01-14

Pending Committee

Calendar

Hearing
2025-12-10
09:00
412 Knott Building
Senate Appropriations Hearing

Sponsors

Sponsors

Sen
Appropriations
1
1
R
Sen
Don Gaetz
SD-001
2
0
R
Sen
Corey Simon
SD-003
3
0
N
Sen
Jason Pizzo
SD-037
4
0
R
Sen
Daniel Burgess
SD-023
5
0
D
Sen
Rosalind Osgood
SD-032
6
0
D
Sen
Darryl Rouson
SD-016
7
0

Texts

Texts

2025-11-21
Introduced
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https://legiscan.com/FL/text/S0318/id/3285468
2025-12-12
Comm Sub
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https://legiscan.com/FL/text/S0318/id/3290668
2026-01-14
Engrossed
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https://legiscan.com/FL/text/S0318/id/3316643

Votes

Votes

2025-12-10
16
0
1
17
1
S
2026-01-14
38
0
0
39
1
S

Amendments

Amendments

0
S
2025-12-09
Senate Committee Amendment #348712
0
S
2025-12-09
Senate Committee Amendment #899626
0
S
2025-12-09
Senate Committee Amendment #174286
0
S
2025-12-09
Senate Committee Amendment #884508
0
S
2025-12-09
Senate Committee Amendment #442232
0
S
2026-01-12
Senate Floor Amendment #713876
0
S
2026-01-12
Senate Floor Amendment #789314
0
S
2026-01-12
Senate Floor Amendment #629180

Supplements

Supplements

2025-12-09
Veto Letter
Analysis
Appropriations (Pre-Meeting)
2025-12-12
Veto Letter
Analysis
Appropriations (Post-Meeting)

History

Progress

2025-11-21
Introduced
2025-11-21
Refer
2026-01-14
Engrossed

History

2025-11-21
Filed
S
2025-11-21
Referred to Appropriations
S
2025-12-01
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 12/10/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
S
2025-12-10
CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
S
2025-12-12
Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
S
2025-12-12
Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
S
2026-01-12
Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/14/26
S
2026-01-13
Introduced
S
2026-01-13
CS by Appropriations read 1st time
S
2026-01-14
Read 2nd time
S
2026-01-14
Amendment(s) adopted (629180, 713876, 789314)
S
2026-01-14
Read 3rd time
S
2026-01-14
CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
S
2026-01-14
Immediately certified
S
2026-01-14
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