FloridaEducational Scholarship Programs
What it does
Educational Scholarship Programs; Creating an operating 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; requiring that specified data include a verification that certain full-time equivalent student membership survey data has been cross-checked by the department; renaming the Hope Scholarship Program as the Hope Program; requiring the Department of Education to work with eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations to resolve discrepancies in certain student funding, etc.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Died
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jun 16Died in Conference Committee, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1255 (Ch. 2025-110), SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198)Died
- Jun 2Conference Committee appointed: Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget: Hooper (Chair), Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government/Agriculture and Natural Resources: Brodeur (Chair), Arrington, Berman, Burton, Collins, DiCeglie, Grall, McClain, Pizzo, Rodriguez, Sharief, Truenow, Boyd (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government/State Administration: Brodeur (Chair), Arrington, Berman, Burton, Collins, DiCeglie, Grall, McClain, Pizzo, Rodriguez, Sharief, Truenow; Appropriations Conference Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice/Justice: Garcia (Chair), Ingoglia, Martin, Osgood, Polsky, Rouson, Simon, Wright, Yarborough, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Health and Human Services/Health Care: Trumbull (Chair), Berman, Brodeur, Burton, Davis, Garcia, Gruters, Harrell, Rodriguez, Rouson, Boyd (At Large), Passidomo (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Higher Education/Higher Education: Harrell (Chair), Bradley, Burgess, Calatayud, Davis, Leek, Smith, Trumbull, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education/PreK-12: Burgess (Chair), Bradley, Calatayud, Gaetz, Jones, Osgood, Pizzo, Simon, Yarborough, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development/Transportation and Economic Development: DiCeglie (Chair), Arrington, Avila, Bernard, Collins, Grall, Ingoglia, Leek, Martin, McClain, Polsky, Sharief, Smith, Truenow, Wright, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large);
- Jun 2Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget)
- Jun 2Conference Committee appointed
- Jun 2Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget)
- Apr 10In returning messages
- Apr 9Passed the Senate bill as amended by House and we accede to conference
- Vote recorded Passage, Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Third Reading. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 9CS passed as amended; YEAS 80, NAYS 27Passed House
- Apr 9Read 3rd timeMinor
- Apr 9Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Apr 9Placed on 3rd readingMinor
- Apr 9Amendment 225079 adopted
- Apr 9Read 2nd timeMinor
- Apr 9Read 1st time
- Apr 9Substituted for HB 5101
- Apr 9Bill referred to House Calendar
- Apr 9In Messages
- Apr 9Immediately certified
- Apr 9The Senate requests that the House pass the bill as passed by the Senate or agree to include the bill in the Budget Conference
- Apr 9CS passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 2Passed Senate
- Apr 9Read 3rd timeMinor
- Apr 9Amendment(s) adopted (247708, 548044)
- Apr 9Read 2nd timeMinor
- Apr 8CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- Apr 4Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- Apr 4Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Apr 4Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- Apr 2IntroducedMinor
- Vote recorded Favorable with Committee Substitute. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 2CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- Mar 31On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/03/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled
- Mar 28On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- Mar 28Referred to AppropriationsMinor
- Mar 28FiledMinor
- Mar 26Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 1
- Vote recorded Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 21On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- Mar 21Submitted for consideration by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 EducationIntroduced