---
type: "Bill"
title: "Linking Industry to Nursing Education Fund"
description: "Linking Industry to Nursing Education Fund; Revising the Legislative intent for the Linking Industry to Nursing Education (LINE) Fund; authorizing the inclusion of nonmonetary contributions to institutions for purposes of proposals for LINE Fund matching funds; requiring proposals for participation in the fund to be submitted by specified persons; prohibiting a proposal to participate in the fund from being comprised solely of nonmonetary contributions, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1246"
citation: "Florida SB 1246 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-101"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-06"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01533cfd-3451-4541-a876-db97cfee6f1c"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1246/ByCategory"
source_hash: "bdd4a5e549fa63429f53bcf2ca7fe7ced4ff9f7159d1453e6ab7b258f958afe0"
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 1246 (2026) — Linking Industry to Nursing Education Fund

Linking Industry to Nursing Education Fund; Revising the Legislative intent for the Linking Industry to Nursing Education (LINE) Fund; authorizing the inclusion of nonmonetary contributions to institutions for purposes of proposals for LINE Fund matching funds; requiring proposals for participation in the fund to be submitted by specified persons; prohibiting a proposal to participate in the fund from being comprised solely of nonmonetary contributions, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-101.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1246 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1246/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1246 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1246/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1246 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1246/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1246 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1246/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Higher Education — primary (organization)
- Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-06** Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-12** Referred to Education Postsecondary; Appropriations Committee on Higher Education; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 01/21/26, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building
- **2026-01-21** Favorable by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-21** Now in Appropriations Committee on Higher Education
- **2026-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Higher Education, 02/04/26, 3:45 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-04** CS by Appropriations Committee on Higher Education; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-06** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-09** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-10** CS by Appropriations Committee on Higher Education read 1st time
- **2026-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/18/26, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-18** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-26** In Messages
- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Amendment 300069 adopted
- **2026-03-10** Amendment 722471 adopted as amended
- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Amendment 271703 engrossed amendment (replaces 722471, 300069)
- **2026-03-10** In returning messages
- **2026-03-12** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (271703)
- **2026-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-26** Chapter No. 2026-101

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01533cfd-3451-4541-a876-db97cfee6f1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).