---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Program"
description: "Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Program; Providing that tutoring provided through the tutoring program established as part of the Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Program may be provided after the school day; authorizing school districts that participate in the tutoring program to provide a stipend to instructional personnel and high school students who serve as tutors under the program, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "Florida SB 46 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-46"
primary_sponsors: ["Stewart"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-09-18"
last_action: "2024-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da123769-4d0a-42ed-9bf5-747753cbb20c"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/46/ByCategory"
source_hash: "1eaa8ee6894745aa254239828f25a7bb3a4081b0d9dd734bd891f8f92df0fa72"
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 46 (2024) — Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Program

Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Program; Providing that tutoring provided through the tutoring program established as part of the Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Program may be provided after the school day; authorizing school districts that participate in the tutoring program to provide a stipend to instructional personnel and high school students who serve as tutors under the program, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-46.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 46 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/46/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 46 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/46/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stewart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-18** Filed `filing`
- **2023-10-10** Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-05** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K -12, 01/10/24, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Favorable by Education Pre-K -12; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-10** Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- **2024-01-12** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/17/24, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-01-17** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-17** Now in Rules
- **2024-01-19** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/24/24, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-24** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-01-30** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/01/24
- **2024-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-01** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-01** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-01** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024)
- **2024-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-27** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-02** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-03** Chapter No. 2024-46

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da123769-4d0a-42ed-9bf5-747753cbb20c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).