---
type: "Bill"
title: "Postsecondary Education for Certain Military Personnel"
description: "Postsecondary Education for Certain Military Personnel; Requiring the Board of Governors and the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to create a process for the uniform award of postsecondary credit or career education clock hours to certain servicemembers and veterans of the United States Armed Forces; requiring specified postsecondary institutions to waive the transcript fee for active duty members of the United States Armed Forces, certain veterans, and their spouses and dependents, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 171"
citation: "Florida HB 171 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-80"
primary_sponsors: ["Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-09-16"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae1e0b32-2c53-4acd-a5c0-c9f16da707e5"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/ByCategory"
source_hash: "41e6572452b83d410542327fdc27fd86caebdfd15738114bcac12bff1fd086fa"
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 171 (2020) — Postsecondary Education for Certain Military Personnel

Postsecondary Education for Certain Military Personnel; Requiring the Board of Governors and the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to create a process for the uniform award of postsecondary credit or career education clock hours to certain servicemembers and veterans of the United States Armed Forces; requiring specified postsecondary institutions to waive the transcript fee for active duty members of the United States Armed Forces, certain veterans, and their spouses and dependents, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-80.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 171 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 171 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 171 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 171 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/171/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Education Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Higher Education & Career Readiness Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-16** Filed `filing`
- **2019-09-25** Referred to Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-07** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee, 11/14/19, 9:00 am, Mashburn Hall
- **2019-11-14** CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2019-11-15** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-11-25** Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/15/20, 3:30 pm, Webster Hall
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-01-15** Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-15** Now in Education Committee
- **2020-01-21** On Committee agenda-- Education Committee, 01/23/20, 12:00 pm, Reed Hall
- **2020-01-23** Favorable by- Education Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
- **2020-02-19** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2020-02-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/20
- **2020-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** Amendment(s) adopted (508491)
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-03** In Messages
- **2020-03-03** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs and Space; Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Withdrawn from Military and Veterans Affairs and Space; Education; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Substituted for CS/SB 372
- **2020-03-04** Received
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-24** Chapter No. 2020-80

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae1e0b32-2c53-4acd-a5c0-c9f16da707e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).