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type: "Bill"
title: "Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Student Service Requirements"
description: "Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Student Service Requirements; Authorizes student's service requirements for award under Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program to be paid rather than volunteer; authorizes, rather than requiring, student to identify specified interest or develop plan for his or her service requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 461"
citation: "Florida HB 461 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-223"
primary_sponsors: ["Melo", "Valdés"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 48
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-11-02"
last_action: "2022-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/277c9099-dd6a-4807-81cf-ac184b3c994a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/461/ByCategory"
source_hash: "85014f7e766126632f336882ca4fd8093e1b65b1203647c1d560125602a3a2ac"
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 461 (2022) — Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Student Service Requirements
Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Student Service Requirements; Authorizes student's service requirements for award under Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program to be paid rather than volunteer; authorizes, rather than requiring, student to identify specified interest or develop plan for his or her service requirements.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-223.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 461 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/461/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 461 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/461/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 461 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/461/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 461 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/461/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee) — **170** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **1130** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Education & Employment Committee) — **190** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee) — **130** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **1190** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **353** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Melo — primary (person)
- Post-Secondary Education and Lifelong Learning Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Valdés — primary (person)
- Arrington — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Maney — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Smith, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Toledo — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-11-02** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-10** Referred to Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-10** Referred to Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-10** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-10** 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
- **2022-01-25** 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 Education & Employment 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 Education & Employment Committee
- **2022-02-15** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2022-02-17** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-17** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2022-02-17** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-04** Received
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for CS/SB 1060
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Amendment(s) adopted (859864)
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-10** Added to Senate Message List
- **2022-03-10** Amendment 859864 Concur
- **2022-03-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 119, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2022-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-28** Chapter No. 2022-223
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/277c9099-dd6a-4807-81cf-ac184b3c994a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).