---
type: "Bill"
title: "Educational Grants"
description: "Educational Grants; Providing education grants under the William L. Boyd, IV, Effective Access to Student Education Grant Program to certain students who were eligible as of a specified date to receive grants under the former Access to Better Learning and Education Grant Program; providing education grants to eligible students at for-profit colleges or universities under certain conditions; requiring that institutions that wish to participate provide notice to the Department of Education by a certain date, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1272"
citation: "Florida SB 1272 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-93"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Simon"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-28"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6518d194-58e1-44d3-9fe1-648ad43e0ca0"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1272/ByCategory"
source_hash: "48e1a45883248324d99268e19655fe43d3d10f8b912fa1966d13b42ee45dd41b"
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 1272 (2023) — Educational Grants

Educational Grants; Providing education grants under the William L. Boyd, IV, Effective Access to Student Education Grant Program to certain students who were eligible as of a specified date to receive grants under the former Access to Better Learning and Education Grant Program; providing education grants to eligible students at for-profit colleges or universities under certain conditions; requiring that institutions that wish to participate provide notice to the Department of Education by a certain date, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-93.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1272 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1272/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1272 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1272/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1272 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1272/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Simon — primary (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Gruters — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-28** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-06** Referred to Education Postsecondary; Appropriations Committee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-10** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 03/15/23, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-15** Favorable by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Now in Appropriations Committee on Education
- **2023-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Education, 04/18/23, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-18** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Education; YEAS 10 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Now in Appropriations
- **2023-04-20** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/25/23, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-04-25** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/23
- **2023-04-26** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** In Messages
- **2023-05-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-05-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/2/2023)
- **2023-05-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-17** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-18** Chapter No. 2023-93

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6518d194-58e1-44d3-9fe1-648ad43e0ca0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).