---
type: "Bill"
title: "Postsecondary Fee Waivers"
description: "Postsecondary Fee Waivers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 593"
citation: "Florida HB 593 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-124"
primary_sponsors: ["Trumbull"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5fe5940-bb3b-40ae-bce4-6f82ddf3bdc4"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/593/ByCategory"
source_hash: "cd6e444e3b2ffc3b6c0e6f3b93a6745a7ca80293c44d1f98abda6bce84047362"
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 593 (2019) — Postsecondary Fee Waivers

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-124.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 593 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/593/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 593 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/593/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 593 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/593/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 593 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/593/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Education Committee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Higher Education & Career Readiness Subcommittee) — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Trumbull — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-06** 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** Favorable by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2019-03-28** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 04/01/19, 1:00 pm, Sumner Hall
- **2019-04-01** CS by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-01** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-04-02** CS by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2019-04-03** Now in Education Committee
- **2019-04-05** On Committee agenda-- Education Committee, 04/09/19, 2:00 pm, Webster Hall
- **2019-04-09** CS/CS by- Education Committee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-11** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-04-11** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-11** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/17/19
- **2019-04-11** CS/CS by Education Committee read 1st time
- **2019-04-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** CS passed; YEAS 114 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-23** In Messages
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** 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/SB 1164
- **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 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-30** Ordered enrolled
- **2019-06-13** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-25** Chapter No. 2019-124

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5fe5940-bb3b-40ae-bce4-6f82ddf3bdc4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).