---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education"
description: "Education; Authorizing the Department of Education to hold patents, copyrights, trademarks, and service marks; establishing the Innovative Blended Learning and Real-Time Student Assessment Pilot Program within the department; requiring certain students to take a specified assessment relating to civic literacy; requiring certain postsecondary students to complete a civic literacy course and pass a specified assessment to demonstrate competency in civic literacy; requiring school districts to provide the SAT or ACT to grade 11 students beginning in a specified school year, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1108"
citation: "Florida SB 1108 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-157"
primary_sponsors: ["Diaz"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-08"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5ba4bf6-959d-4be2-8343-0b7f0d7988ae"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1108/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b1fa7d36cb1589e9f4278af41aecbc4e549189e81f2181d3200d89563745d73c"
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 1108 (2021) — Education

Education; Authorizing the Department of Education to hold patents, copyrights, trademarks, and service marks; establishing the Innovative Blended Learning and Real-Time Student Assessment Pilot Program within the department; requiring certain students to take a specified assessment relating to civic literacy; requiring certain postsecondary students to complete a civic literacy course and pass a specified assessment to demonstrate competency in civic literacy; requiring school districts to provide the SAT or ACT to grade 11 students beginning in a specified school year, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-157.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1108 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1108/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1108 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1108/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1108 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1108/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1108 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1108/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1108 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1108/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 1108 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1108/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Diaz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-08** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-18** Referred to Judiciary; Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-17** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/22/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-22** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-24** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-24** Now in Education
- **2021-03-25** On Committee agenda-- Education, 03/30/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-25** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2021-03-30** Favorable by Education; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/19/21, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-19** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2021-04-20** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-20** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Amendment(s) adopted (272776)
- **2021-04-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-22** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-22** In Messages
- **2021-04-22** Amendment 882307 filed
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 592685 filed
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 710649 filed
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 882307 withdrawn
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 710649 adopted
- **2021-04-27** Amendment 592685 adopted
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** In returning messages
- **2021-04-28** Concurred in 2 amendment(s) (592685, 710649)
- **2021-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-157

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5ba4bf6-959d-4be2-8343-0b7f0d7988ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).