---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children with Developmental Delays"
description: "Children with Developmental Delays; Revising the definition of the term “exceptional student” to include additional students with developmental delays, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 236"
citation: "Florida SB 236 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-24"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-09-16"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86b04731-82a2-4f07-9b3f-ed2c2f59389c"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/236/ByCategory"
source_hash: "dc9c06a9c10a340ab7901c6ab69ea946470a6bb575295f294b8df0036a61ce47"
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 236 (2022) — Children with Developmental Delays

Children with Developmental Delays; Revising the definition of the term “exceptional student” to include additional students with developmental delays, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-24.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 236 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/236/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 236 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/236/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Ausley — cosponsor (person)
- Berman — cosponsor (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)
- Bracy — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Pizzo — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Taddeo — cosponsor (person)
- Torres — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-16** Filed `filing`
- **2021-10-13** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-25** On Committee agenda-- Education, 11/02/21, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-11-02** Favorable by Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-02** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-02-11** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, 02/16/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-16** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-17** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/24/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-24** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-03-29** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-24

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86b04731-82a2-4f07-9b3f-ed2c2f59389c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).