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type: "Bill"
title: "Education"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1159"
citation: "Florida HB 1159 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-228"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 49
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bec35f9-abe7-4ea7-a1b9-5a0da2db610a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1159/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9f7a6b274eb7ce961568c9f9ba2d8f1d433ae35a47a660b65ee3b2a9e907c1a2"
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 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.
1. **H 1159 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1159/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1159 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1159/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1159 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1159/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 1159 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1159/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Favorable (Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee) — **150** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Education & Employment Committee) — **190** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee) — **160** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **1140** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **1150** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0bec35f9-abe7-4ea7-a1b9-5a0da2db610a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).