---
type: "Bill"
title: "Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc."
description: "Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.; Requiring the board of directors of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc., rather than the Board of Governors, to authorize the creation of a subsidiary of the corporation; revising the composition of the board of directors of the corporation; authorizing subsidiaries of the corporation to enter into certain affiliation agreements, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 312"
citation: "Florida SB 312 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-161"
primary_sponsors: ["Gaetz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45de44f4-3ddc-4dc6-b25c-5c590942aede"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/312/ByCategory"
source_hash: "1349353a4210d63b3c9b51bd45ada47456e72e51cd3e0a62ab874f5d8ef60cbc"
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 312 (2025) — Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.

Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.; Requiring the board of directors of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc., rather than the Board of Governors, to authorize the creation of a subsidiary of the corporation; revising the composition of the board of directors of the corporation; authorizing subsidiaries of the corporation to enter into certain affiliation agreements, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-161.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 312 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/312/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 312 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/312/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 312 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/312/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 312 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/312/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Education Postsecondary — primary (organization)
- Gaetz — primary (person)
- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (organization)
- Harrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Education Postsecondary; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 02/18/25, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building --Amendment(s) Adopted - Temporarily Postponed
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 03/10/25, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2025-03-10** CS by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-12** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2025-03-12** CS by Education Postsecondary read 1st time
- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-25** CS/CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-26** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-26** CS/CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability 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 24 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 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** In Messages
- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-161

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45de44f4-3ddc-4dc6-b25c-5c590942aede`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).