republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2023/hb-1537.md

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Bill	Education	Education; Requiring school districts to annually review and confirm that specified information is accurate and up to date; creating the Year-round School Pilot Program for a period of 4 school years beginning with a specified school year; requiring the Commission for Independent Education to annually prepare an accountability report by a specified date; providing requirements for searches of students’ personal belongings; requiring dual enrollment courses to be age and developmentally appropriate; authorizing students to use a combination of volunteer service hours and paid work hours to meet certain program eligibility requirements; providing an appropriation, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2023	HB 1537	Florida HB 1537 (2023)	bill	commercial relations	enacted	2023-39	Daniels Rizo	7	63	6	2023-03-06	2023-05-10	openstates	ocd-bill/42bc652f-06db-479a-bd2d-ac7e9826457d	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1537/ByCategory	9da385698eae451d2bdc1081dbfd12298734d5ec1b62dc6fb625d7822a42f50a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 1537 (2023) — Education

Education; Requiring school districts to annually review and confirm that specified information is accurate and up to date; creating the Year-round School Pilot Program for a period of 4 school years beginning with a specified school year; requiring the Commission for Independent Education to annually prepare an accountability report by a specified date; providing requirements for searches of students’ personal belongings; requiring dual enrollment courses to be age and developmentally appropriate; authorizing students to use a combination of volunteer service hours and paid work hours to meet certain program eligibility requirements; providing an appropriation, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-39.

Version chain

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

1. H 1537 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 1537 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 1537 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 1537 c3 (committee substitute) — source
5. H 1537 e1 (engrossed) — source
6. H 1537 e2 (engrossed) — source
7. H 1537 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Appropriations Committee) — 27–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 112–3 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Education Quality Subcommittee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Education & Employment Committee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage, Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Appropriations Committee — primary (organization)
• Daniels — primary (person)
• Education & Employment Committee — primary (organization)
• Education Quality Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Rizo — primary (person)
• Alvarez — cosponsor (person)
• Anderson — cosponsor (person)
• Bankson — cosponsor (person)
• Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
• Brackett — cosponsor (person)
• Dunkley — cosponsor (person)
• Esposito — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia — cosponsor (person)
• Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
• Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
• Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
• Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
• Massullo — cosponsor (person)
• Mooney — cosponsor (person)
• Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
• Plakon — cosponsor (person)
• Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
• Porras — cosponsor (person)
• Roth — cosponsor (person)
• Salzman — cosponsor (person)
• Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• Steele — cosponsor (person)
• Temple — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
• Valdés — cosponsor (person)
• Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-06 Filed filing
• 2023-03-07 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Education Quality Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 Referred to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Education & Employment Committee referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
• 2023-03-13 Added to Education Quality Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-03-20 PCS added to Education Quality Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-03-22 Favorable with CS by Education Quality Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-23 Reported out of Education Quality Subcommittee
• 2023-03-23 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-03-23 CS Filed filing
• 2023-03-23 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2023-03-24 Original reference removed: PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2023-03-24 Referred to Appropriations Committee referral-committee
• 2023-03-24 Referred to Education & Employment Committee referral-committee
• 2023-03-24 Now in Appropriations Committee
• 2023-04-10 Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
• 2023-04-12 Favorable with CS by Appropriations Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-12 Reported out of Appropriations Committee
• 2023-04-13 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-04-13 CS Filed filing
• 2023-04-13 Referred to Education & Employment Committee referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 Now in Education & Employment Committee
• 2023-04-13 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2023-04-17 Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
• 2023-04-19 Favorable with CS by Education & Employment Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-20 Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
• 2023-04-20 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-04-20 CS Filed filing
• 2023-04-20 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2023-04-20 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
• 2023-04-20 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) reading-1
• 2023-04-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-25 Amendment 926917 adopted
• 2023-04-25 Amendment 384447 not allowed for consideration
• 2023-04-25 Amendment 301481 adopted
• 2023-04-25 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2023-04-25 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2023-04-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-04-26 CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 passage
• 2023-04-26 In Messages
• 2023-04-26 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 Received enrolled
• 2023-05-02 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2023-05-02 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2023-05-02 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1430
• 2023-05-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-05-02 Amendment(s) adopted (648866, 774200, 797990, 864902)
• 2023-05-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-05-02 CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2023-05-02 In Messages
• 2023-05-03 Added to Senate Message List
• 2023-05-03 Amendment 797990 Concur
• 2023-05-03 Amendment 864902 Concur
• 2023-05-03 Amendment 774200 Concur
• 2023-05-03 Amendment 648866 Concur
• 2023-05-03 CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 3 passage
• 2023-05-03 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2023-05-08 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-09 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-10 Chapter No. 2023-39; companion bill(s) passed, see HB 891 (Ch. 2023-66), CS/CS/SB 240 (Ch. 2023-81)
• 2023-05-10 Chapter No. 2023-39; companion bill(s) passed, see HB 891 (Ch. 2023-66), CS/CS/SB 240 (Ch. 2023-81)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42bc652f-06db-479a-bd2d-ac7e9826457d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).