---
type: "Bill"
title: "Excess Credit Hour Surcharges"
description: "Excess Credit Hour Surcharges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 565"
citation: "Florida HB 565 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["sexual crimes"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2018-132"
primary_sponsors: ["Mariano"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-11-07"
last_action: "2018-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6fca395-80ea-4d6b-ba3f-b9c1fec20b92"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/00565/ByCategory"
source_hash: "449f204f2aeac62a66a2a927d8cd6e7aae74569db4238fa75ea457237806a363"
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 565 (2018) — Excess Credit Hour Surcharges

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2018-132.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 565 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/565/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 565 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/565/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 565 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/565/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Post-Secondary Education Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Education Committee) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mariano — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-11-07** Filed `filing`
- **2017-11-15** Referred to Post-Secondary Education Subcommittee; Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-29** On Committee agenda-- Post-Secondary Education Subcommittee, 12/06/17, 4:00 pm, Mashburn Hall
- **2017-12-06** Favorable by Post-Secondary Education Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-06** Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2018-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 02/13/18, 9:30 am, Webster Hall
- **2018-02-13** Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-13** Now in Education Committee
- **2018-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Education Committee, 02/21/18, 10:00 am, Reed Hall
- **2018-02-21** CS by- Education Committee; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2018-02-21** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2018-02-21** CS by Education Committee read 1st time
- **2018-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-02-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/18
- **2018-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2018-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-01** CS passed; YEAS 115 NAYS 0 -HJ 759, 760 `passage`
- **2018-03-01** In Messages
- **2018-03-01** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Received
- **2018-03-08** Withdrawn from Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2018-03-08** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2018-03-08** Substituted for CS/SB 844
- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Ordered enrolled
- **2018-03-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2018-03-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-02** Chapter No. 2018-132

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6fca395-80ea-4d6b-ba3f-b9c1fec20b92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).