---
type: "Bill"
title: "Renaming Of Florida College System Institutions"
description: "Renaming Of Florida College System Institutions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 525"
citation: "Florida HB 525 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-78"
primary_sponsors: ["Raschein"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1c8c1cb-1300-437b-b482-06de14b98a88"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/525/ByCategory"
source_hash: "655a131597513a325818b149a89d7158a2fbed7c0e355cf64434cb723a437540"
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 525 (2019) — Renaming Of Florida College System Institutions

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-78.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 525 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/525/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 525 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/525/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Higher Education & Career Readiness Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Education Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Raschein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** Filed `filing`
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee, 02/13/19, 4:00 pm, Mashburn Hall
- **2019-02-13** Favorable by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-13** Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2019-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 03/04/19, 2:30 pm, Morris Hall
- **2019-03-04** Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** Now in Education Committee
- **2019-03-12** On Committee agenda-- Education Committee, 03/14/19, 12:00 pm, Reed Hall
- **2019-03-14** Favorable by- Education Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-03-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/27/19
- **2019-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-27** Passed; YEAS 112 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-03** In Messages
- **2019-04-04** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Received
- **2019-05-01** Withdrawn from Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2019-05-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-05-01** Substituted for SB 720
- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 1
- **2019-05-02** Ordered enrolled
- **2019-06-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-07** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Chapter No. 2019-78

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1c8c1cb-1300-437b-b482-06de14b98a88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).