---
type: "Bill"
title: "Educational Opportunities for Disabled Veterans"
description: "Educational Opportunities for Disabled Veterans; Provides that disabled veterans receiving certain federal educational assistance benefits are eligible to receive waiver for tuition & fees at certain institutions; provides calculation for waiver amount; requires amount awarded by state to be contingent on application of specified federal benefits; requires institutions to submit annual report to Board of Governors & State Board of Education; requires boards to adopt regulations & rules."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 45"
citation: "Florida HB 45 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["veterans"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-187"
primary_sponsors: ["Benjamin", "Morales"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 49
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-08-24"
last_action: "2022-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/726a63ce-3d4f-40d1-ae0b-3099dcc8a8a6"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/45/ByCategory"
source_hash: "79196d7ce15b5fc9cf973466701d0eea30896845b98619be0991415f9ee807ab"
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 45 (2022) — Educational Opportunities for Disabled Veterans

Educational Opportunities for Disabled Veterans; Provides that disabled veterans receiving certain federal educational assistance benefits are eligible to receive waiver for tuition & fees at certain institutions; provides calculation for waiver amount; requires amount awarded by state to be contingent on application of specified federal benefits; requires institutions to submit annual report to Board of Governors & State Board of Education; requires boards to adopt regulations & rules.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-187.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 45 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/45/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 45 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/45/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 45 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/45/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (State Affairs Committee) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Benjamin — primary (person)
- Morales — primary (person)
- Post-Secondary Education and Lifelong Learning Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Arrington — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Bush — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Fetterhoff — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- Killebrew — cosponsor (person)
- Learned — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, F. — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-08-24** Filed `filing`
- **2021-09-17** Referred to Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-17** Referred to Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-17** Referred to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-17** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-17** Now in Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
- **2021-11-23** Added to Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-12-01** Favorable by Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-12-01** Reported out of Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
- **2021-12-01** Now in Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-21** Added to Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-01-25** Favorable with CS by Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
- **2022-01-26** Reported out of Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
- **2022-01-26** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-01-26** CS Filed
- **2022-01-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-01-28** Referred to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-02-04** Added to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-02-08** Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-08** Reported out of Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-02-08** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2022-02-17** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2022-02-21** Favorable by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-21** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2022-02-21** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** In Messages
- **2022-03-02** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Received
- **2022-03-04** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for CS/SB 554
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-06** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-10** Chapter No. 2022-187

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/726a63ce-3d4f-40d1-ae0b-3099dcc8a8a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).