---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designation of School Grades"
description: "Designation of School Grades; Revising the components on which a school’s grade is based, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 434"
citation: "Florida SB 434 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["j"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-74"
primary_sponsors: ["Montford"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-10-03"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d3be07b-03e3-48a4-8892-cc4da99e03b7"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/434/ByCategory"
source_hash: "74fae73cccd0188818a3fec88b70068aebf865e31332d1ebd098188c86a32d49"
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 434 (2020) — Designation of School Grades

Designation of School Grades; Revising the components on which a school’s grade is based, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-74.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 434 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/434/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 434 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/434/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 434 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/434/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 434 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/434/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Montford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-03** Filed `filing`
- **2019-10-15** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-12-02** On Committee agenda-- Education, 12/09/19, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-12-09** CS by Education; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2019-12-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-12-13** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Education read 1st time
- **2020-01-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, 01/28/20, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2020-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, 01/29/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-01-29** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-29** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/20/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-20** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-20** Placed on Calendar, 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 (178310)
- **2020-02-26** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-02-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-03** In Messages
- **2020-03-06** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
- **2020-03-06** Received
- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** CS passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** 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. 2020-74

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d3be07b-03e3-48a4-8892-cc4da99e03b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).