---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education"
description: "Education; Requiring the Office of Reimagining Education and Career Help to develop certain criteria and display public information; providing a tax credit for eligible businesses that employ an apprentice or preapprentice under certain conditions; authorizing specified employers to apply to the Department of Financial Services for reimbursement of workers’ compensation premiums paid for students participating in work-based learning opportunities; encouraging the district school board to adopt policies and procedures to consult with certain entities to determine how to expose students to industries, businesses, and careers; providing admissions policies for career centers that offer certain science degree programs; revising requirements for the Florida Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant Program, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 240"
citation: "Florida SB 240 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(passed)", "executive branch", "labor", "regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-81"
primary_sponsors: ["Education Pre-K -12", "Fiscal Policy", "Hutson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-23"
last_action: "2023-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/798e79c0-900a-4d4a-967a-28fe4f6d0fcc"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/240/ByCategory"
source_hash: "46a1ce83cb8a5032ace7c03cfbe9f400f1bf965398f0e5bc3f47f59dc3f60fb2"
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 240 (2023) — Education

Education; Requiring the Office of Reimagining Education and Career Help to develop certain criteria and display public information; providing a tax credit for eligible businesses that employ an apprentice or preapprentice under certain conditions; authorizing specified employers to apply to the Department of Financial Services for reimbursement of workers’ compensation premiums paid for students participating in work-based learning opportunities; encouraging the district school board to adopt policies and procedures to consult with certain entities to determine how to expose students to industries, businesses, and careers; providing admissions policies for career centers that offer certain science degree programs; revising requirements for the Florida Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant Program, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-81.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 240 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/240/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 240 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/240/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 240 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/240/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 240 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/240/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 240 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/240/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Education Pre-K -12 — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Hutson — primary (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Simon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-23** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Commerce and Tourism; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K -12, 03/14/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-14** CS by Education Pre-K -12; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-15** CS by Education Pre-K -12 read 1st time
- **2023-03-15** Original reference(s) removed: Commerce and Tourism
- **2023-03-15** Remaining references corrected to Fiscal Policy
- **2023-03-15** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-04-10** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/13/23, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-13** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-14** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-14** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-17** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2023-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/26/23
- **2023-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-26** Amendment(s) adopted (589662)
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** 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 (Engrossed 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`
- **2023-05-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-15** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-16** Chapter No. 2023-81, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 1537 (Ch. 2023-39), HB 5101 (Ch. 2023-245), CS/SB 196 (Ch. 2023-89), SB 2502 (Ch. 2023-240)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/798e79c0-900a-4d4a-967a-28fe4f6d0fcc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).