---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Chaplains"
description: "School Chaplains; Authorizes school districts & charter schools to adopt policy to allow volunteer school chaplains; requires district school boards & charter school governing boards to assign specified duties to such volunteer school chaplains; requires volunteer school chaplains to meet certain background screening requirements; requires school districts and charter schools to publish specified information under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 931"
citation: "Florida HB 931 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-103"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniels", "McClain"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-12-19"
last_action: "2024-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fb02022-79ab-4ce2-93b5-e579a0885d4f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/931/ByCategory"
source_hash: "235e57c5bea99b3fd97c2f9c2e202bb2da7004f05f3c9c761470655343f85ad3"
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 931 (2024) — School Chaplains

School Chaplains; Authorizes school districts & charter schools to adopt policy to allow volunteer school chaplains; requires district school boards & charter school governing boards to assign specified duties to such volunteer school chaplains; requires volunteer school chaplains to meet certain background screening requirements; requires school districts and charter schools to publish specified information under certain circumstances.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-103.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 931 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/931/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 931 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/931/BillText/e1/PDF)
3. **H 931 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/931/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **89–25** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **28–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daniels — primary (person)
- McClain — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Chamberlin — cosponsor (person)
- Dunkley — cosponsor (person)
- Fine — cosponsor (person)
- Leek — cosponsor (person)
- Melo — cosponsor (person)
- Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Shoaf — cosponsor (person)
- Yeager — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-19** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-05** Referred to Education Quality Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-05** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-05** Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** Added to Education Quality Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-25** Favorable by Education Quality Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-25** Reported out of Education Quality Subcommittee
- **2024-01-25** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2024-01-26** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2024-01-30** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2024-01-30** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2024-01-30** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Amendment 033997 Failed
- **2024-02-21** Amendment 733109 Failed
- **2024-02-21** Amendment 812581 Failed
- **2024-02-21** Amendment 310623 Failed
- **2024-02-21** Amendment 186515 Failed
- **2024-02-21** Amendment 879021 adopted
- **2024-02-21** Amendment 893609 Failed
- **2024-02-21** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** Passed as amended; YEAS 89, NAYS 25 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** In Messages
- **2024-02-23** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-06** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-06** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-06** Substituted for CS/SB 1044
- **2024-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Passed; YEAS 28 NAYS 12 `passage`
- **2024-03-07** In Messages
- **2024-03-07** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-19** Chapter No. 2024-103

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fb02022-79ab-4ce2-93b5-e579a0885d4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).