---
type: "Bill"
title: "Driver License Education Requirements"
description: "Driver License Education Requirements; Specifying the age at which an applicant for a driver license must complete a traffic law and substance abuse education course; requiring an applicant for a learner’s driver license to complete a certain driver education course approved by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 994"
citation: "Florida SB 994 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-104"
primary_sponsors: ["Collins"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9b28280-3fb9-4cc5-8ab9-4dd3a0efe1d4"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/994/ByCategory"
source_hash: "54edbce189c0c80b7df7bfa1f87306778f42bbc1bad01321ba207da0d3f15841"
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 994 (2025) — Driver License Education Requirements

Driver License Education Requirements; Specifying the age at which an applicant for a driver license must complete a traffic law and substance abuse education course; requiring an applicant for a learner’s driver license to complete a certain driver education course approved by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-104.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 994 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/994/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 994 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/994/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 994 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/994/BillText/e2/HTML)
4. **S 994 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/994/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- SB 994 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Collins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-07** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 03/12/25, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-12** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- **2025-03-19** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 03/24/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-24** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 14 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-24** 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 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- **2025-04-09** Retained on Special Order Calendar
- **2025-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Amendment(s) adopted (231840)
- **2025-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-15** 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 (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amendment 746171 adopted
- **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** Passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** In returning messages
- **2025-04-30** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (689718)
- **2025-04-30** Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (746171)
- **2025-04-30** Passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In Messages
- **2025-05-01** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-01** Amendment 689718 Refuse to Concur
- **2025-05-01** Refused to concur, requested Senate to recede
- **2025-05-01** In returning messages
- **2025-05-02** Receded from amendment(s) to House amendment(s) (689718)
- **2025-05-02** Passed as amended; YEAS 33 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-02** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-02** Chapter No. 2025-104

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9b28280-3fb9-4cc5-8ab9-4dd3a0efe1d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).