---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public School Student Progression for Students with Disabilities"
description: "Public School Student Progression for Students with Disabilities; Requiring comprehensive plans for student progression to provide for specified students with disabilities to be retained in prekindergarten at the discretion of a student’s parent; authorizing certain prekindergarten students to receive instruction in early literacy skills, rather than intensive reading interventions; requiring certain prekindergarten students to receive such instruction, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 290"
citation: "Florida SB 290 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-91"
primary_sponsors: ["Education Pre-K -12", "Jones"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/caad6b86-39fe-4f1a-8e65-e59e37964184"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/290/ByCategory"
source_hash: "04e72751f9db8664212d2cd2818d562a77f2e29395b3c86dcc07108049fee4c4"
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 290 (2023) — Public School Student Progression for Students with Disabilities

Public School Student Progression for Students with Disabilities; Requiring comprehensive plans for student progression to provide for specified students with disabilities to be retained in prekindergarten at the discretion of a student’s parent; authorizing certain prekindergarten students to receive instruction in early literacy skills, rather than intensive reading interventions; requiring certain prekindergarten students to receive such instruction, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-91.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 290 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/290/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 290 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/290/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 290 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/290/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Education Pre-K -12 — primary (person)
- Jones — primary (person)
- Berman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Filed `filing`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Appropriations Committee on Education; 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 9 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-15** Now in Appropriations Committee on Education
- **2023-03-15** CS by Education Pre-K -12 read 1st time
- **2023-03-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Education, 03/21/23, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-21** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Education; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-22** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-04-10** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/13/23, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-13** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/19/23
- **2023-04-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Immediately certified
- **2023-04-19** 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 113, 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. 2023-91

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/caad6b86-39fe-4f1a-8e65-e59e37964184`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).