---
type: "Bill"
title: "Middle School and High School Start Times"
description: "Middle School and High School Start Times; Providing that district school boards and charter schools, respectively, are in compliance with certain provisions relating to middle school and high school start times upon submission of a specified report to the Department of Education, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 296"
citation: "Florida SB 296 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-53"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c65a89c-597f-4b76-a3b0-1b97eca14de9"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/296/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0d60bbf4258a031261e5c4b117d86cd344170f86e73196e9b5284ce8dc0738e4"
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 296 (2025) — Middle School and High School Start Times

Middle School and High School Start Times; Providing that district school boards and charter schools, respectively, are in compliance with certain provisions relating to middle school and high school start times upon submission of a specified report to the Department of Education, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-53.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 296 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/296/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 296 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/296/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 296 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/296/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 296 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/296/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)
- Education Pre-K - 12 — primary (organization)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Yarborough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** Filed `filing`
- **2025-01-29** Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/03/25, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-03** CS by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 6 NAYS 1
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-05** Now in Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education
- **2025-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education, 03/11/25, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-10** CS by Education Pre-K - 12 read 1st time
- **2025-03-11** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-03-17** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/20/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-20** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-21** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-03-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/27/25
- **2025-03-26** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Immediately certified
- **2025-03-27** 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. 2025-53

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c65a89c-597f-4b76-a3b0-1b97eca14de9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).