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| Bill | Education | Education; Authorizing a parent or guardian to request that his or her K-5 student be retained in a grade level for academic reasons for a specified school year; requiring that such a request be submitted in a specified manner; requiring school principals to consider such requests if they are timely received; authorizing school principals to consider requests that are not timely received; requiring a school principal who considers a request for retention to inform the student's teachers of the request and collaboratively discuss with the parent or guardian any basis for agreement or disagreement with the request; requiring the Commissioner of Education to provide learning growth data calculated in accordance with a certain formula to each school district by a specified date each year; revising the minimum qualifications for part-time and full-time nondegreed teachers of career programs; revising the criteria for the Department of Education to issue a professional certificate; revising the goals of the program, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2021 | HB 1159 | Florida HB 1159 (2021) |
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enacted | 2021-228 | 4 | 49 | 6 | 2021-02-19 | 2021-07-06 | openstates | ocd-bill/0bec35f9-abe7-4ea7-a1b9-5a0da2db610a | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1159/ByCategory | 9f7a6b274eb7ce961568c9f9ba2d8f1d433ae35a47a660b65ee3b2a9e907c1a2 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 1159 (2021) — Education
Education; Authorizing a parent or guardian to request that his or her K-5 student be retained in a grade level for academic reasons for a specified school year; requiring that such a request be submitted in a specified manner; requiring school principals to consider such requests if they are timely received; authorizing school principals to consider requests that are not timely received; requiring a school principal who considers a request for retention to inform the student's teachers of the request and collaboratively discuss with the parent or guardian any basis for agreement or disagreement with the request; requiring the Commissioner of Education to provide learning growth data calculated in accordance with a certain formula to each school district by a specified date each year; revising the minimum qualifications for part-time and full-time nondegreed teachers of career programs; revising the criteria for the Department of Education to issue a professional certificate; revising the goals of the program, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-228.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- H 1159 Filed (filed) — source
- H 1159 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 1159 e1 (engrossed) — source
- H 1159 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Favorable (Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee) — 15–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Education & Employment Committee) — 19–0 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee) — 16–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage — 114–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Education and Employment Committee — primary (organization)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-02-19 Filed
filing - 2021-02-28 Referred to Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2021-02-28 Referred to Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2021-02-28 Referred to Education & Employment Committee
referral-committee - 2021-02-28 Now in Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee
- 2021-03-02 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- 2021-03-19 Added to Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee agenda
- 2021-03-23 Favorable by Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-03-23 Reported out of Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee
- 2021-03-23 Now in Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
- 2021-03-30 Added to Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee agenda
- 2021-04-01 Favorable by Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-04-01 Reported out of Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
- 2021-04-01 Now in Education & Employment Committee
- 2021-04-13 Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- 2021-04-15 Favorable with CS by Education & Employment Committee
- 2021-04-15 Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- 2021-04-15 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- 2021-04-15 CS Filed
- 2021-04-15 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- 2021-04-16 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2021-04-16 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2021-04-18 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/21/2021)
- 2021-04-21 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-21 Placed on 3rd reading
- 2021-04-21 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2021-04-22 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-22 CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0
passage - 2021-04-22 In Messages
- 2021-04-22 Message sent to senate
- 2021-04-22 Referred to Appropriations
referral-committee - 2021-04-22 Received
- 2021-04-26 Withdrawn from Appropriations
withdrawal - 2021-04-26 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2021-04-26 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 934
- 2021-04-26 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-26 Amendment(s) adopted (523776, 925196)
- 2021-04-26 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-26 CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0
passage - 2021-04-26 In Messages
- 2021-04-29 Added to Senate Message List
- 2021-04-29 Amendment 925196 Concur
- 2021-04-29 Amendment 523776 Concur
- 2021-04-29 CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0
passage - 2021-04-29 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- 2021-04-29 Message sent to senate
- 2021-06-28 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- 2021-06-29 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2021-07-06 Chapter No. 2021-228; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7011 (Ch. 2021-9), CS/CS/SB 1028 (Ch. 2021-35)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0bec35f9-abe7-4ea7-a1b9-5a0da2db610a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).