---
type: "Bill"
title: "Career and Technical Education"
description: "Career and Technical Education; Revises duties of Office of Reimagining Education & Career Help; revises provisions relating to journeymen & specified career fairs; provides exemption for minors to work in specified conditions; revises list of individuals who are required to review & comment on certain revisions to state academic standards; requires DOE to convene workgroup by specified date; authorizes certain students to be exempt from completing certain examinations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 917"
citation: "Florida HB 917 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["executive branch", "labor", "regulation of professions and occupations", "t"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-125"
primary_sponsors: ["Snyder"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 55
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-12-18"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd543bce-b817-4925-b545-5d5f0ab7dde5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/917/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7f13f687ebe90095e98990762686fe1569af11a8450ed6f14d00835d9effd209"
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 HB 917 (2024) — Career and Technical Education

Career and Technical Education; Revises duties of Office of Reimagining Education & Career Help; revises provisions relating to journeymen & specified career fairs; provides exemption for minors to work in specified conditions; revises list of individuals who are required to review & comment on certain revisions to state academic standards; requires DOE to convene workgroup by specified date; authorizes certain students to be exempt from completing certain examinations.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-125.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 917 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/917/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 917 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/917/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 917 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/917/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 917 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/917/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 917 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/917/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 917 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/917/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **105–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **84–30** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Choice & Innovation Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Education & Employment Committee — primary (organization)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Fabricio — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzalez Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Maggard — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Roach — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stark — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Tramont — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-18** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-05** Referred to Choice & Innovation Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-05** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-05** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-05** Now in Choice & Innovation Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** Added to Choice & Innovation Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-25** Favorable with CS by Choice & Innovation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-26** Reported out of Choice & Innovation Subcommittee
- **2024-01-26** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-26** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-29** Original reference removed: Appropriations Committee
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-02-02** Added to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-02-06** Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-06** Reported out of Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-02-06** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2024-02-12** PCS added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2024-02-14** Favorable with CS by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2024-02-15** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-15** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-15** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-16** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/27/2024)
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Amendment 902983 adopted
- **2024-02-27** Amendment 761395 adopted
- **2024-02-27** Amendment 659073 adopted as amended
- **2024-02-27** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 84, NAYS 30 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** In Messages
- **2024-02-28** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-01** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-01** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 460
- **2024-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** Amendment(s) adopted (673320)
- **2024-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 32 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-01** In Messages
- **2024-03-07** Added to Senate Message List
- **2024-03-07** Amendment 673320 Concur
- **2024-03-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 105, NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-29** Chapter No. 2024-125

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd543bce-b817-4925-b545-5d5f0ab7dde5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).