Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Postsecondary Education for Certain Military Personnel"
+description: "Postsecondary Education for Certain Military Personnel; Requiring the Board of Governors and the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to create a process for the uniform award of postsecondary credit or career education clock hours to certain servicemembers and veterans of the United States Armed Forces; requiring specified postsecondary institutions to waive the transcript fee for active duty members of the United States Armed Forces, certain veterans, and their spouses and dependents, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 171"
+citation: "Florida HB 171 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2020-80"
+primary_sponsors: ["Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-09-16"
+last_action: "2020-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae1e0b32-2c53-4acd-a5c0-c9f16da707e5"
+source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "41e6572452b83d410542327fdc27fd86caebdfd15738114bcac12bff1fd086fa"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
+---
+
+# Florida HB 171 (2020) — Postsecondary Education for Certain Military Personnel
+
+Postsecondary Education for Certain Military Personnel; Requiring the Board of Governors and the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to create a process for the uniform award of postsecondary credit or career education clock hours to certain servicemembers and veterans of the United States Armed Forces; requiring specified postsecondary institutions to waive the transcript fee for active duty members of the United States Armed Forces, certain veterans, and their spouses and dependents, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-80.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **H 171 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/BillText/Filed/PDF)
+2. **H 171 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/BillText/c1/PDF)
+3. **H 171 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/BillText/e1/PDF)
+4. **H 171 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/BillText/er/PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable (Education Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Higher Education & Career Readiness Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-09-16** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-09-25** Referred to Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; Education Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2019-11-07** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee, 11/14/19, 9:00 am, Mashburn Hall
+- **2019-11-14** CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
+- **2019-11-15** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
+- **2019-11-25** Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
+- **2020-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/15/20, 3:30 pm, Webster Hall
+- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2020-01-14** CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee read 1st time
+- **2020-01-15** Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-01-15** Now in Education Committee
+- **2020-01-21** On Committee agenda-- Education Committee, 01/23/20, 12:00 pm, Reed Hall
+- **2020-01-23** Favorable by- Education Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-01-23** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
+- **2020-02-19** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
+- **2020-02-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/20
+- **2020-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-26** Amendment(s) adopted (508491)
+- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2020-03-03** In Messages
+- **2020-03-03** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs and Space; Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-04** Withdrawn from Military and Veterans Affairs and Space; Education; Appropriations `withdrawal`
+- **2020-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-04** Substituted for CS/SB 372
+- **2020-03-04** Received
+- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2020-03-05** Ordered enrolled
+- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
+- **2020-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-24** Chapter No. 2020-80
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae1e0b32-2c53-4acd-a5c0-c9f16da707e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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