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SB 7030
  • Introduced
    Mar 21, 2025
  • Passed Senate
    Apr 09, 2025
  • Passed House
    Apr 09, 2025
  • Signed into Law
SB 7030
Florida Senate Bill
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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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House • Jun 02, 2025: Conference Committee appointed
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Companion Bills
FL2025HB 871
Virtual Instruction; Provides that certain students are excluded from specified calculations relating to high-performing charter school's facility capacity; authorizes high-performing charter schools to provide part-time virtual courses to certain students; provides funding requirements for such courses; revises authorized uses of Florida Tax Credit Scholarship funds.
FL2025HB 1255
Education; Revises provisions relating to critical teacher shortage areas, Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, Florida School for Competitive Academics, use of certain educational funds, emergency opioid antagonists, corporal punishment, background screening requirements for private schools, prekindergarten programs, students of military families, K-12 courses, ins...
FL2025HB 5001
General Appropriations Act; Provides moneys for annual period beginning July 1, 2025, & ending June 30, 2026, & supplemental appropriations for period ending June 30, 2025, to pay salaries & other expenses, capital outlay—buildings & other improvements, & for other specified purposes of various agencies of state government. APPROPRIATION: $112,953,017,248
FL2025HB 5101
Education; Revises provisions relating to Education Estimating Conference, Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program, FEFP, & K-12 funding.
FL2025SB 2500
Appropriations; Providing moneys for the annual period beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, and supplemental appropriations for the period ending June 30, 2025, to pay salaries, and other expenses, capital outlay - buildings, and other improvements, and for other specified purposes of the various agencies of state government, etc. APPROPRIATION: $117,355,632,050

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Mar 26, 2025, Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education - Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill
YES: 8
NO: 1
OTHER: 1
YES: 8

NO: 1

NOT VOTING: 1

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Apr 02, 2025, Senate
Senate Appropriations - Favorable with Committee Substitute
YES: 18
NO: 0
OTHER: 0
YES: 18

NO: 0

    OTHER: 0
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    Apr 09, 2025, Senate
    Third Reading
    YES: 35
    NO: 2
    OTHER: 1
    YES: 35

    NO: 2

    EXCUSED: 1

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    Apr 09, 2025, House
    Passage, Third Reading
    YES: 80
    NO: 27
    OTHER: 12
    YES: 80

    NO: 27

    NOT VOTING: 12

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    • Jun 02, 2025 | House
      • Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget)
      • Conference Committee appointed
    • Jun 02, 2025 | Senate
      • Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget)
      • Conference 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);
    • Apr 10, 2025 | Senate
      • In returning messages
    • Apr 09, 2025 | House
      • In Messages
      • Bill referred to House Calendar
      • Substituted for HB 5101
      • Read 1st time
      • Read 2nd time
      • Amendment 225079 adopted
      • Placed on 3rd reading
      • Added to Third Reading Calendar
      • Read 3rd time
      • CS passed as amended; YEAS 80, NAYS 27
      • Passed the Senate bill as amended by House and we accede to conference
    • Apr 09, 2025 | Senate
      • Read 2nd time
      • Amendment(s) adopted (247708, 548044)
      • Read 3rd time
      • CS passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 2
      • The Senate requests that the House pass the bill as passed by the Senate or agree to include the bill in the Budget Conference
      • Immediately certified
    • Apr 08, 2025 | Senate
      • CS by Appropriations read 1st time
    • Apr 04, 2025 | Senate
      • Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
      • Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
      • Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
    • Apr 02, 2025 | Senate
      • CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
      • Introduced
    • Mar 31, 2025 | Senate
      • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/03/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled
    • Mar 28, 2025 | Senate
      • Filed
      • Referred to Appropriations
      • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
    • Mar 26, 2025 | Senate
      • Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 1
    • Mar 21, 2025 | Senate
      • Submitted for consideration by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education
      • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
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