---
type: "Bill"
title: "Required Health Education Instruction"
description: "Required Health Education Instruction; Provides additional requirements for health education; revises grades when students receive certain health education instruction; requires health education instruction include prevention of specified harms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 519"
citation: "Florida HB 519 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-83"
primary_sponsors: ["Yarborough"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 47
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-28"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89a67ccc-a2eb-463d-935d-cb166c6c1354"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/519/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a540cc80268caf78d449d87180af9ddc7f59cf8c8c1bc8cd7748589cea5aacdf"
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 519 (2021) — Required Health Education Instruction

Required Health Education Instruction; Provides additional requirements for health education; revises grades when students receive certain health education instruction; requires health education instruction include prevention of specified harms.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-83.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 519 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/519/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 519 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/519/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 519 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/519/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Education & Employment Committee) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yarborough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-28** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Now in Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee
- **2021-03-02** Added to Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-08** Added to Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-10** Favorable with CS by Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee
- **2021-03-10** Reported out of Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee
- **2021-03-10** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-03-10** CS Filed
- **2021-03-10** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-03-12** Original reference removed: PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-12** Referred to Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** Now in Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee
- **2021-03-12** Added to Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-16** Favorable by Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Reported out of Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee
- **2021-03-16** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2021-03-22** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2021-03-24** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-24** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2021-03-24** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2021-03-24** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/15/2021)
- **2021-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-15** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** In Messages
- **2021-04-19** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Received
- **2021-04-26** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-26** Substituted for CS/SB 1094
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-14** Chapter No. 2021-83

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89a67ccc-a2eb-463d-935d-cb166c6c1354`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).