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Bill	Educational Opportunities for Disabled Veterans	Educational Opportunities for Disabled Veterans; Provides that disabled veterans receiving certain federal educational assistance benefits are eligible to receive waiver for tuition & fees at certain institutions; provides calculation for waiver amount; requires amount awarded by state to be contingent on application of specified federal benefits; requires institutions to submit annual report to Board of Governors & State Board of Education; requires boards to adopt regulations & rules.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2022	HB 45	Florida HB 45 (2022)	bill	veterans	enacted	2022-187	Benjamin Morales	3	49	6	2021-08-24	2022-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/726a63ce-3d4f-40d1-ae0b-3099dcc8a8a6	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/45/ByCategory	79196d7ce15b5fc9cf973466701d0eea30896845b98619be0991415f9ee807ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 45 (2022) — Educational Opportunities for Disabled Veterans

Educational Opportunities for Disabled Veterans; Provides that disabled veterans receiving certain federal educational assistance benefits are eligible to receive waiver for tuition & fees at certain institutions; provides calculation for waiver amount; requires amount awarded by state to be contingent on application of specified federal benefits; requires institutions to submit annual report to Board of Governors & State Board of Education; requires boards to adopt regulations & rules.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-187.

Version chain

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

1. H 45 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 45 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 45 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee) — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage, Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (State Affairs Committee) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee) — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Benjamin — primary (person)
• Morales — primary (person)
• Post-Secondary Education and Lifelong Learning Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Arrington — cosponsor (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• Bush — cosponsor (person)
• Chaney — cosponsor (person)
• Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
• Fetterhoff — cosponsor (person)
• Fischer — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• Killebrew — cosponsor (person)
• Learned — cosponsor (person)
• Mooney — cosponsor (person)
• Nixon — cosponsor (person)
• Robinson, F. — cosponsor (person)
• Tant — cosponsor (person)
• Valdés — cosponsor (person)
• Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Woodson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-08-24 Filed filing
• 2021-09-17 Referred to Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2021-09-17 Referred to Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2021-09-17 Referred to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2021-09-17 Referred to State Affairs Committee referral-committee
• 2021-09-17 Now in Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
• 2021-11-23 Added to Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee agenda
• 2021-12-01 Favorable by Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-12-01 Reported out of Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
• 2021-12-01 Now in Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
• 2022-01-11 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
• 2022-01-21 Added to Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee agenda
• 2022-01-25 Favorable with CS by Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
• 2022-01-26 Reported out of Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee
• 2022-01-26 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
• 2022-01-26 CS Filed
• 2022-01-26 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
• 2022-01-28 Referred to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2022-01-28 Referred to State Affairs Committee referral-committee
• 2022-01-28 Now in Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2022-02-04 Added to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
• 2022-02-08 Favorable by Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-08 Reported out of Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2022-02-08 Now in State Affairs Committee
• 2022-02-17 Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
• 2022-02-21 Favorable by State Affairs Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-21 Reported out of State Affairs Committee
• 2022-02-21 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2022-02-24 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
• 2022-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2022-03-01 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2022-03-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-02 CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-03-02 In Messages
• 2022-03-02 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-03-02 Received
• 2022-03-04 Withdrawn from Appropriations withdrawal
• 2022-03-04 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2022-03-04 Substituted for CS/SB 554
• 2022-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-03-04 In Messages
• 2022-03-04 Ordered enrolled
• 2022-06-06 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2022-06-09 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-06-10 Chapter No. 2022-187

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/726a63ce-3d4f-40d1-ae0b-3099dcc8a8a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).