---
type: "Bill"
title: "Student Participation in Interscholastic and Intrascholastic Extracurricular Sports"
description: "Student Participation in Interscholastic and Intrascholastic Extracurricular Sports; Providing that an activity or a sport must meet specified requirements; specifying conditions for a home education student to participate in interscholastic athletics; revising the criteria a private school student must meet to participate in a sport at a Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) member school, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 248"
citation: "Florida SB 248 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-52"
primary_sponsors: ["Judiciary", "Simon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e859fb87-349a-4dc1-bb72-027291cbc92f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/248/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6b545b9e77498391db4cfe074aeabc0de25ebca7bfaff5c265c3f45bf259368c"
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 248 (2025) — Student Participation in Interscholastic and Intrascholastic Extracurricular Sports

Student Participation in Interscholastic and Intrascholastic Extracurricular Sports; Providing that an activity or a sport must meet specified requirements; specifying conditions for a home education student to participate in interscholastic athletics; revising the criteria a private school student must meet to participate in a sport at a Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) member school, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-52.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 248 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/248/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 248 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/248/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 248 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/248/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 248 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/248/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 248 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/248/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **92–19** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **88–10** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **35–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Education Pre-K - 12 — primary (organization)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Simon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14** Filed `filing`
- **2025-01-29** Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-11** CS by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-12** Now in Judiciary
- **2025-03-12** CS by Education Pre-K - 12 read 1st time
- **2025-03-14** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/19/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-19** CS/CS by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 2
- **2025-03-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-20** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-26** CS/CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/01/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-01** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** 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 35 NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** In Messages
- **2025-04-17** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)
- **2025-04-17** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-23** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 151
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Amendment 421121 adopted
- **2025-04-23** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed as amended; YEAS 92, NAYS 19 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In returning messages
- **2025-04-30** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (591970)
- **2025-04-30** Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (421121)
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In Messages
- **2025-05-02** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-02** Amendment 591970 Concur
- **2025-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 88, NAYS 10 `passage`
- **2025-05-02** Ordered engrossed, then 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. 2025-52

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e859fb87-349a-4dc1-bb72-027291cbc92f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).