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type: "Bill"
title: "Agreements of Educational Entities with Foreign Entities"
description: "Agreements of Educational Entities with Foreign Entities; Prohibiting state universities and state colleges from accepting grants from or participating in partnerships or agreements with a college or university based in a foreign country of concern or with a foreign principal unless specified conditions are met; providing an exception; authorizing state universities to enter into partnerships or agreements with a college or university based in a foreign country of concern or with a foreign principal if such partnerships or agreements are approved by the Board of Governors and specified requirements are met; authorizing the board to sanction and withhold performance funding from a state university for entering into an unauthorized partnership or agreement; requiring each state university and state college to annually submit specified information to the Board of Governors and the Department of Education, respectively, by a specified date, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 846"
citation: "Florida SB 846 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public business"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-34"
primary_sponsors: ["Avila", "Judiciary", "Rules"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/544a1556-14a9-4837-b48c-c081899d270d"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/846/ByCategory"
source_hash: "024bf6ae7932ff2af655e9a8fca4b115df271a5296b8ee218c4682907597c1b5"
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 SB 846 (2023) — Agreements of Educational Entities with Foreign Entities
Agreements of Educational Entities with Foreign Entities; Prohibiting state universities and state colleges from accepting grants from or participating in partnerships or agreements with a college or university based in a foreign country of concern or with a foreign principal unless specified conditions are met; providing an exception; authorizing state universities to enter into partnerships or agreements with a college or university based in a foreign country of concern or with a foreign principal if such partnerships or agreements are approved by the Board of Governors and specified requirements are met; authorizing the board to sanction and withhold performance funding from a state university for entering into an unauthorized partnership or agreement; requiring each state university and state college to annually submit specified information to the Board of Governors and the Department of Education, respectively, by a specified date, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-34.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 846 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/846/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 846 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/846/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 846 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/846/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 846 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/846/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **92** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1190** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **73** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **190** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Avila — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-16** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Education Postsecondary; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 03/07/23, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-07** Favorable by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 7 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-08** Now in Judiciary
- **2023-03-24** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/29/23, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-29** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 2
- **2023-03-30** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-30** Now in Rules
- **2023-03-30** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/11/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-11** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-12** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-12** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2023-04-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/26/23
- **2023-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/1/2023)
- **2023-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** CS passed; YEAS 119, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-08** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-08** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-09** Chapter No. 2023-34
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/544a1556-14a9-4837-b48c-c081899d270d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).