---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Program"
description: "Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Program; Renaming the Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program as the Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Program; revising criteria for a school district’s eligibility to participate in the program; deleting an obsolete provision requiring the University of Florida’s College of Education to conduct a specified evaluation, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 478"
citation: "Florida SB 478 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-168"
primary_sponsors: ["Perry"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3525e71-9e0c-4067-abc9-746d0255ef11"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/478/ByCategory"
source_hash: "83cfe921c3105bfb3d67a8b37cd3cb750be9bee40db8ebb21aefb82590ba4a2f"
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 478 (2023) — Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Program

Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Program; Renaming the Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Pilot Program as the Early Childhood Music Education Incentive Program; revising criteria for a school district’s eligibility to participate in the program; deleting an obsolete provision requiring the University of Florida’s College of Education to conduct a specified evaluation, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-168.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 478 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/478/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 478 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/478/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 478 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/478/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Education — primary (organization)
- Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-01** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Appropriations Committee on Education; Appropriations `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 Appropriations Committee on Education
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Education, 03/14/23, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-14** CS by Appropriations Committee on Education; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-15** Now in Appropriations
- **2023-03-21** CS by Appropriations Committee on Education read 1st time
- **2023-03-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/28/23, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-28** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/11/23
- **2023-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-12** 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 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Chapter No. 2023-168

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3525e71-9e0c-4067-abc9-746d0255ef11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).