---
type: "Bill"
title: "Career-themed Courses"
description: "Career-themed Courses; Revising the requirements for a specified school district strategic plan to include certain information; requiring the Department of Education to include specified data in an annual review of K-12 and postsecondary career and technical education offerings, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1688"
citation: "Florida SB 1688 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-119"
primary_sponsors: ["Osgood"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54fc86b7-c778-400e-8853-695c9be501ad"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1688/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9bf46826c1a4abcd4ab022476f2645cb34a98d27a0a113b5aec30d994694f6a0"
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 1688 (2024) — Career-themed Courses

Career-themed Courses; Revising the requirements for a specified school district strategic plan to include certain information; requiring the Department of Education to include specified data in an annual review of K-12 and postsecondary career and technical education offerings, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-119.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1688 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1688/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1688 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1688/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Osgood — primary (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Hutson — cosponsor (person)
- Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Yarborough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-11** Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-18** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K -12, 01/23/24, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-23** Favorable by Education Pre-K -12; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-23** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2024-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/30/24, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-01-30** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** Now in Rules
- **2024-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/08/24, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-08** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/15/24
- **2024-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-15** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-15** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-15** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered 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. 2024-119

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54fc86b7-c778-400e-8853-695c9be501ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).