---
type: "Bill"
title: "Students Enrolled in Dropout Retrieval Programs"
description: "Students Enrolled in Dropout Retrieval Programs; Revising assessment and accountability requirements for a virtual instruction program provider; providing that dropout retrieval programs serve a specified group of students; requiring a dropout retrieval program to choose to receive a school grade or school improvement rating, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1402"
citation: "Florida SB 1402 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-57"
primary_sponsors: ["Yarborough"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95e74a38-ec29-4fdb-878d-219a53a80726"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1402/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f787b156219b00167748e40c425abeee353794521a07b51887bc0bccd3ecba18"
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 1402 (2025) — Students Enrolled in Dropout Retrieval Programs

Students Enrolled in Dropout Retrieval Programs; Revising assessment and accountability requirements for a virtual instruction program provider; providing that dropout retrieval programs serve a specified group of students; requiring a dropout retrieval program to choose to receive a school grade or school improvement rating, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-57.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1402 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1402/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1402 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1402/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1402 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1402/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1402 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1402/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education — primary (organization)
- Education Pre-K - 12 — primary (organization)
- Yarborough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-06** Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-12** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/17/25, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-17** CS by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-19** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-19** Now in Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education
- **2025-03-19** CS by Education Pre-K - 12 read 1st time
- **2025-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-26** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-28** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-28** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-03-28** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-04-02** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education read 1st time
- **2025-04-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-22** Chapter No. 2025-57

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95e74a38-ec29-4fdb-878d-219a53a80726`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).