---
type: "Bill"
title: "Educational Opportunities Leading to Employment"
description: "Educational Opportunities Leading to Employment; Renaming the Florida Ready to Work Certification Program as the Florida Ready to Work Credential Program; providing where the program training may be conducted; requiring that certain students be covered by the workers’ compensation insurance of their employers in a work-based learning opportunity; requiring admissions counseling to use certain tests or alternative methods to measure achievement of college-level communication and computation by students entering college programs, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 366"
citation: "Florida SB 366 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["labor", "regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-162"
primary_sponsors: ["Hutson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 50
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-12-22"
last_action: "2021-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8986056-610f-4816-b496-ba9d7f1f5fd8"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/366/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6073048893bdaa945eacc000ae3bbff51755ada972c66ec1c40a42db753cc1a3"
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 366 (2021) — Educational Opportunities Leading to Employment

Educational Opportunities Leading to Employment; Renaming the Florida Ready to Work Certification Program as the Florida Ready to Work Credential Program; providing where the program training may be conducted; requiring that certain students be covered by the workers’ compensation insurance of their employers in a work-based learning opportunity; requiring admissions counseling to use certain tests or alternative methods to measure achievement of college-level communication and computation by students entering college programs, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-162.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 366 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/366/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 366 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/366/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 366 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/366/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 366 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/366/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 366 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/366/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 366 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/366/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hutson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-12-22** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Education, 03/02/21, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Education; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-04** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-05** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education
- **2021-03-10** CS by Education read 1st time
- **2021-04-05** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, 04/08/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-08** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-04-09** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-04-12** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/15/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/19/21, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-15** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2021-04-18** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-19** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-19** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/21/21
- **2021-04-20** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Amendment(s) adopted (141986, 291458, 832462)
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-24** Amendment 569361 filed
- **2021-04-26** Amendment 579605 filed
- **2021-04-26** Amendment 569361 withdrawn
- **2021-04-26** Amendment 579605 withdrawn
- **2021-04-26** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 358433 filed
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 854589 filed
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 854589 adopted
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 358433 adopted
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** In returning messages
- **2021-04-28** Concurred in 2 amendment(s) (358433, 854589)
- **2021-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-06-22** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-28** Chapter No. 2021-162, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 1028 (Ch. 2021-35)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8986056-610f-4816-b496-ba9d7f1f5fd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).