---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program"
description: "Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program; Extending the scheduled expiration of the pilot program; requiring the University of Florida’s College of Education to collaborate with Florida International University’s school of music for evaluation of the pilot program; requiring that the evaluation be shared with the Florida Center for Partnerships in Arts-Integrated Teaching, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 156"
citation: "Florida SB 156 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["j"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-72"
primary_sponsors: ["Perry"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-08-20"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb3cb465-070d-4093-824a-dab4caeb736a"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/156/ByCategory"
source_hash: "4d46b392ea2266d2392c4b156bd01b72be329728b12f801a2cc6ae5d257a5ebd"
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 SB 156 (2020) — Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program

Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program; Extending the scheduled expiration of the pilot program; requiring the University of Florida’s College of Education to collaborate with Florida International University’s school of music for evaluation of the pilot program; requiring that the evaluation be shared with the Florida Center for Partnerships in Arts-Integrated Teaching, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-72.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 156 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/156/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 156 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/156/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 156 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/156/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 156 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/156/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 156 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/156/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-20** Filed `filing`
- **2019-09-19** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-05** On Committee agenda-- Education, 11/12/19, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-11-12** CS by Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2019-11-13** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-11-18** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Education read 1st time
- **2020-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, 02/13/20, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-13** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-17** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-27** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/03/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-03-03** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-04** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-04** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (321480)
- **2020-03-06** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-24** Chapter No. 2020-72

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb3cb465-070d-4093-824a-dab4caeb736a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).