---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disability History and Awareness Instruction"
description: "Disability History and Awareness Instruction; Requires that disability history & awareness instruction include specified materials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 447"
citation: "Florida HB 447 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-49"
primary_sponsors: ["Salzman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 51
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19008d70-1740-41a5-9d0f-ad98b3d0b101"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/447/ByCategory"
source_hash: "21d45d9e828fe084e980d5f288aef34d5b6fa94ded3bea22bd3dac0c40992215"
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 447 (2025) — Disability History and Awareness Instruction

Disability History and Awareness Instruction; Requires that disability history & awareness instruction include specified materials.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-49.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 447 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/447/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 447 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/447/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 447 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/447/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 447 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/447/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **107–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Salzman — primary (person)
- Student Academic Success Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Benarroch — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Partington — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Weinberger — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)
- Yeager — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to Student Academic Success Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Now in Student Academic Success Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** Added to Student Academic Success Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-25** Favorable with CS by Student Academic Success Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Reported out of Student Academic Success Subcommittee
- **2025-03-26** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-26** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Now in PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee
- **2025-03-28** Added to PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-04-01** Favorable by PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Reported out of PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee
- **2025-04-01** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-04** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2025-04-08** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-08** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
- **2025-04-22** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2025)
- **2025-04-24** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2025-04-24** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-24** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
- **2025-04-24** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-24** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2025)
- **2025-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-25** Amendment 073289 adopted
- **2025-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-25** CS passed as amended; YEAS 107, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-25** In Messages
- **2025-04-25** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-28** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-28** Substituted for CS/SB 540
- **2025-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-28** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-21** Chapter No. 2025-49

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19008d70-1740-41a5-9d0f-ad98b3d0b101`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).