---
type: "Bill"
title: "K-12 Scholarship Programs"
description: "K-12 Scholarship Programs ; Revising initial scholarship eligibility criteria for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; requiring that priority be given to students whose household income levels do not exceed a specified amount or who are in foster care or out-of-home; requiring a scholarship-funding organization to refer students who did not receive a scholarship because of lack of funds to another scholarship-funding organization, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 7067"
citation: "Florida HB 7067 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-95"
primary_sponsors: ["Education Committee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-31"
last_action: "2020-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/136fd5d8-53b6-4164-a433-8b08091bf306"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7067/ByCategory"
source_hash: "cb60dd0ec3ff192ffdb6aa542b1ebe72607d13d183fd79d4352402598a129846"
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 7067 (2020) — K-12 Scholarship Programs

K-12 Scholarship Programs ; Revising initial scholarship eligibility criteria for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; requiring that priority be given to students whose household income levels do not exceed a specified amount or who are in foster care or out-of-home; requiring a scholarship-funding organization to refer students who did not receive a scholarship because of lack of funds to another scholarship-funding organization, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-95.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 7067 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7067/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 7067 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7067/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 7067 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7067/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 7067 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7067/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **81–39** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **21–14** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Education Committee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Appropriations Committee) — **18–10** (pass) · lower
- A - 159850, Amendment, Second Reading — **16–21** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Education Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-31** Filed `filing`
- **2020-02-03** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee, 02/25/20, 3:30 pm, Webster Hall
- **2020-02-25** CS by- Appropriations Committee; YEAS 18 NAYS 10
- **2020-02-27** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-27** CS by Appropriations Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-28** 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) failed (130329, 837673, 841565, 856839) -HJ 842, 846
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (090379) -HJ 842, 846
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 81 NAYS 39 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Withdrawn from Education; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-10** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1220
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Temporarily postponed
- **2020-03-10** Retained on Special Order Calendar
- **2020-03-11** Amendment(s) pending (159850) -SJ 696, 723
- **2020-03-11** Temporarily postponed -SJ 696, 723
- **2020-03-11** Retained on Special Order Calendar
- **2020-03-12** Pending amendment(s), failed (159850)
- **2020-03-12** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-13** CS passed; YEAS 21 NAYS 14 `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-26** Chapter No. 2020-95

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/136fd5d8-53b6-4164-a433-8b08091bf306`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).