---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workforce Education"
description: "Workforce Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 7071"
citation: "Florida HB 7071 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-119"
primary_sponsors: ["Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-03-13"
last_action: "2019-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed42cea7-66a2-4ec6-b9ae-6e0f635ce6fb"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/7071/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8a12668d2c934b97cc11552ecf1d35b419e499dbe403aabca07823c58dc8fb5a"
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 7071 (2019) — Workforce Education

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-119.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 7071 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/7071/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 7071 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/7071/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 7071 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/7071/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 7071 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/7071/BillText/e2/PDF)
5. **H 7071 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/7071/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Message, Passage — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Higher Education & Career Readiness Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Education Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-13** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 03/26/19, 3:30 pm, Webster Hall
- **2019-03-26** Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Now in Education Committee
- **2019-04-01** PCS on Committee agenda-- Education Committee, 04/03/19, 9:00 am, Reed Hall
- **2019-04-03** CS by- Education Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-05** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-04-05** CS by Education Committee read 1st time
- **2019-04-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-18** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/19
- **2019-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-24** Amendment(s) adopted (073353, 100997, 178157, 449795, 565827, 855583) -HJ 832, 835
- **2019-04-24** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-25** Read 3rd time -HJ 871, 872 `reading-3`
- **2019-04-25** CS passed as amended; YEAS 108 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-25** In Messages
- **2019-04-25** Referred to Education; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Received
- **2019-05-02** Withdrawn from Education; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2019-05-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-05-02** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 770
- **2019-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Amendment(s) adopted (884156)
- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-02** In returning messages
- **2019-05-02** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (884156) -HJ 1143, 1153
- **2019-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2019-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-24** Chapter No. 2019-119

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed42cea7-66a2-4ec6-b9ae-6e0f635ce6fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).