---
type: "Bill"
title: "Stanley G. Tate Florida Prepaid College Program"
description: "Stanley G. Tate Florida Prepaid College Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 547"
citation: "Florida HB 547 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-79"
primary_sponsors: ["Clemons"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13bfd602-f5f7-40c1-a7c7-bb3d82a17015"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/547/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5a805b5d05dddde87f25b9ef1da5c5ad6fc6b0bcc6383c31337cbd381f0c93d0"
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 547 (2019) — Stanley G. Tate Florida Prepaid College Program

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-79.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 547 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/547/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 547 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/547/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 547 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/547/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 547 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/547/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Higher Education & Career Readiness Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Education Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clemons — 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`
- **2019-03-04** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee, 03/06/19, 9:30 am, Mashburn Hall
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-06** CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; YEAS 14 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-06** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-03-07** Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2019-03-07** CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2019-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 03/19/19, 3:30 pm, Webster Hall
- **2019-03-19** Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-19** Now in Education Committee
- **2019-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Education Committee, 03/28/19, 8:30 am, Reed Hall
- **2019-03-28** CS/CS by- Education Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-28** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-03-29** CS/CS by Education Committee read 1st time
- **2019-03-29** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/10/19
- **2019-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-11** CS passed; YEAS 114 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-18** In Messages
- **2019-04-18** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Received
- **2019-04-29** Withdrawn from Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2019-04-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-29** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 464
- **2019-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-30** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-30** 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. 2019-79

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13bfd602-f5f7-40c1-a7c7-bb3d82a17015`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).