---
type: "Bill"
title: "Collegiate Purple Star Campuses"
description: "Collegiate Purple Star Campuses; Defining the term “military student”; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules and the Board of Governors to adopt regulations to establish the Collegiate Purple Star Campuses program; specifying program criteria for participating Florida College System institutions, state universities, and career centers, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 732"
citation: "Florida SB 732 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-160"
primary_sponsors: ["Education Postsecondary", "Wright"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d67709c0-784e-4288-a79e-cdded3a849a5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/732/ByCategory"
source_hash: "bd26cbda1e403c45c634b0334dcdf6fb58cd0ab190d13e4cbf2c6a9e02e8056c"
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 732 (2023) — Collegiate Purple Star Campuses

Collegiate Purple Star Campuses; Defining the term “military student”; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules and the Board of Governors to adopt regulations to establish the Collegiate Purple Star Campuses program; specifying program criteria for participating Florida College System institutions, state universities, and career centers, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-160.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 732 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/732/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 732 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/732/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 732 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/732/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Education Postsecondary — primary (person)
- Wright — primary (person)
- Collins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-13** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Education Postsecondary; Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 03/07/23, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-07** CS by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-08** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-08** Now in Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security
- **2023-03-08** CS by Education Postsecondary read 1st time
- **2023-03-16** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 03/21/23, 2:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2023-03-21** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-21** Now in Rules
- **2023-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/30/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-30** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** 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 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **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 (Committee Substitute 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 119, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-26** Chapter No. 2023-160

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d67709c0-784e-4288-a79e-cdded3a849a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).