---
type: "Bill"
title: "Guidance Services on Academic and Career Planning"
description: "Guidance Services on Academic and Career Planning; Requiring district school boards to inform students and parents of certain acceleration, academic, and career planning options; requiring certain information to be included in such notification; requiring that certain information be included in a personalized academic and career plan, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 196"
citation: "Florida SB 196 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-89"
primary_sponsors: ["Commerce and Tourism", "Jones"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-13"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f082702-4885-4644-a173-79d8192e1a52"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/196/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ba954ad6f32b1657ce0c34626b464b597a546735b3d94adc1d6818690b98637a"
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 196 (2023) — Guidance Services on Academic and Career Planning

Guidance Services on Academic and Career Planning; Requiring district school boards to inform students and parents of certain acceleration, academic, and career planning options; requiring certain information to be included in such notification; requiring that certain information be included in a personalized academic and career plan, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-89.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 196 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/196/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 196 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/196/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 196 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/196/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 196 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/196/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Commerce and Tourism — primary (person)
- Jones — primary (person)
- Hutson — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-13** Filed `filing`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K -12, 03/06/23, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-06** Favorable by Education Pre-K -12; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/20/23, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-20** CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-21** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-21** CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
- **2023-03-22** Now in Rules
- **2023-03-31** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/05/23, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-05** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/12/23
- **2023-04-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-12** Amendment(s) adopted (556184)
- **2023-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-12** Immediately certified
- **2023-04-12** In Messages
- **2023-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/1/2023)
- **2023-04-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** 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. 2023-89, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 240 (Ch. 2023-81)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f082702-4885-4644-a173-79d8192e1a52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).