republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2020/hb-901.md

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Bill	Vocational Rehabilitation Services	Vocational Rehabilitation Services; Revises duties of Division of Vocational Rehabilitation; requires division to provide preemployment transition services to eligible persons; requires division to enter into formal interagency agreement with state education agency for certain purposes; requires division to work with local educational agencies to provide specified services & arrange for referrals; revises provisions relating to Florida Endowment for Vocational Rehabilitation & Florida Endowment Foundation; revises requirements for individual education plans.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	HB 901	Florida HB 901 (2020)	bill		enacted	2020-85	Ponder	3	32	5	2019-12-10	2020-06-24	openstates	ocd-bill/dcc3a40a-a15e-4cb6-b706-d037f1ba067f	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/901/ByCategory	45f5af17a76a848b5f1bff12eacac67a0cd7f51c5c5fb9d29789355efd917852	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 901 (2020) — Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Vocational Rehabilitation Services; Revises duties of Division of Vocational Rehabilitation; requires division to provide preemployment transition services to eligible persons; requires division to enter into formal interagency agreement with state education agency for certain purposes; requires division to work with local educational agencies to provide specified services & arrange for referrals; revises provisions relating to Florida Endowment for Vocational Rehabilitation & Florida Endowment Foundation; revises requirements for individual education plans.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-85.

Version chain

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

1. H 901 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 901 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 901 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Education Committee) — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable (Higher Education & Career Readiness Subcommittee) — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ponder — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-10 Filed filing
• 2019-12-12 Referred to Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; Education Committee referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 PCS on Committee agenda-- Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee, 01/16/20, 9:00 am, Mashburn Hall
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-16 CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; YEAS 14 NAYS 0
• 2020-01-16 Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
• 2020-01-16 CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee read 1st time
• 2020-01-20 Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2020-01-24 On Committee agenda-- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/28/20, 3:30 pm, Webster Hall
• 2020-01-28 Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-28 Now in Education Committee
• 2020-02-04 On Committee agenda-- Education Committee, 02/06/20, 12:00 pm, Webster Hall
• 2020-02-06 Favorable by- Education Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-06 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-20 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/20
• 2020-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-02-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-02-26 CS passed; YEAS 114 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-03 In Messages
• 2020-03-05 Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-03-05 Received
• 2020-03-10 Withdrawn from Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations withdrawal
• 2020-03-10 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-03-10 Substituted for CS/SB 1784
• 2020-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-11 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-11 Ordered enrolled
• 2020-06-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-23 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-24 Chapter No. 2020-85

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dcc3a40a-a15e-4cb6-b706-d037f1ba067f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).