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type: "Bill"
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title: "Vocational Rehabilitation Services"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "HB 901"
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citation: "Florida HB 901 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2020-85"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ponder"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 32
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2019-12-10"
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last_action: "2020-06-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dcc3a40a-a15e-4cb6-b706-d037f1ba067f"
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source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/901/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "45f5af17a76a848b5f1bff12eacac67a0cd7f51c5c5fb9d29789355efd917852"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida HB 901 (2020) — Vocational Rehabilitation Services
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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.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-85.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **H 901 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/901/BillText/Filed/PDF)
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2. **H 901 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/901/BillText/c1/PDF)
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3. **H 901 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/901/BillText/er/PDF)
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## Votes
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- Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- Favorable (Education Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
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- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable (Higher Education & Career Readiness Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Ponder — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-12-10** Filed `filing`
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- **2019-12-12** Referred to Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; Education Committee `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-14** PCS on Committee agenda-- Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee, 01/16/20, 9:00 am, Mashburn Hall
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- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2020-01-16** CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee; YEAS 14 NAYS 0
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- **2020-01-16** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
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- **2020-01-16** CS by Higher Education and Career Readiness Subcommittee read 1st time
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- **2020-01-20** Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
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- **2020-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/28/20, 3:30 pm, Webster Hall
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- **2020-01-28** Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-01-28** Now in Education Committee
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- **2020-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Education Committee, 02/06/20, 12:00 pm, Webster Hall
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- **2020-02-06** Favorable by- Education Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-02-06** Placed on Calendar
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- **2020-02-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/20
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- **2020-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2020-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 114 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2020-03-03** In Messages
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- **2020-03-05** Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-05** Received
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- **2020-03-10** Withdrawn from Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations `withdrawal`
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- **2020-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2020-03-10** Substituted for CS/SB 1784
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- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
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- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
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- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
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- **2020-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2020-06-24** Chapter No. 2020-85
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dcc3a40a-a15e-4cb6-b706-d037f1ba067f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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