---
type: "Bill"
title: "Funds for the Operation of Schools"
description: "Funds for the Operation of Schools; Revising the annual allocation to school districts to include an additional calculation of full-time equivalent membership for students who earn a College Board Advanced Placement Capstone Diploma beginning in a specified fiscal year; creating the teacher salary increase allocation; prohibiting a school district or charter school from reducing the base minimum salary; deleting the Florida Best and Brightest Allocation, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 641"
citation: "Florida HB 641 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-94"
primary_sponsors: ["Overdorf", "Plasencia"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-11-15"
last_action: "2020-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fe71296-8d39-4cbb-8eee-c84a30757576"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/641/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7202eafd64610322edebbb2240d5115f0cfba0c568da16e9337681b60c80a063"
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 641 (2020) — Funds for the Operation of Schools

Funds for the Operation of Schools; Revising the annual allocation to school districts to include an additional calculation of full-time equivalent membership for students who earn a College Board Advanced Placement Capstone Diploma beginning in a specified fiscal year; creating the teacher salary increase allocation; prohibiting a school district or charter school from reducing the base minimum salary; deleting the Florida Best and Brightest Allocation, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-94.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 641 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/641/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 641 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/641/BillText/e1/PDF)
3. **H 641 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/641/BillText/e2/PDF)
4. **H 641 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/641/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Appropriations Committee) — **29–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Education Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Overdorf — primary (person)
- Plasencia — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-15** Filed `filing`
- **2019-12-03** Referred to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee; Education Committee; Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** On Committee agenda-- PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/16/20, 9:00 am, Reed Hall
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** Favorable by PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-17** 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** Now in Appropriations Committee
- **2020-01-27** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee, 01/29/20, 12:30 pm, Webster Hall
- **2020-01-29** Favorable by- Appropriations Committee; YEAS 29 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-29** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (175779)
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** Passed as amended; YEAS 119 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-11** Withdrawn from Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-11** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-11** Substituted for SB 836
- **2020-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-11** Temporarily postponed
- **2020-03-11** Retained on Special Order Calendar
- **2020-03-12** Amendment(s) adopted (183008)
- **2020-03-12** Amendment(s) reconsidered, withdrawn (679870)
- **2020-03-12** Amendment(s) reconsidered, adopted (183008)
- **2020-03-12** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-13** Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-13** In returning messages
- **2020-03-13** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (183008) -HJ 1225, 1227
- **2020-03-13** Passed as amended; YEAS 112 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-25** Chapter No. 2020-94

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fe71296-8d39-4cbb-8eee-c84a30757576`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).