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| Bill | Required African-American Instruction | Required African-American Instruction; Requires each school district to certify & provide certain evidence to DOE regarding certain instruction; authorizes DOE to seek input from & contract with certain educational organizations for specified purposes; requires each school district to submit implementation plan to Commissioner of Education & post plan on its website; provides requirements for plan; requires commissioner or DOE to provide certain notification; provides timeframe within which school district must submit revisions to its plan; authorizes SBE to take certain actions. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2023 | HB 551 | Florida HB 551 (2023) |
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enacted | 2023-103 |
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3 | 43 | 5 | 2023-01-30 | 2023-05-18 | openstates | ocd-bill/791aea6b-9da9-4f3b-90da-2a07cf3cec46 | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/551/ByCategory | 09ab59f9c24cf193dcefdf85f42077c2d03933d11c82ddf4fe2306e6da555dc1 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 551 (2023) — Required African-American Instruction
Required African-American Instruction; Requires each school district to certify & provide certain evidence to DOE regarding certain instruction; authorizes DOE to seek input from & contract with certain educational organizations for specified purposes; requires each school district to submit implementation plan to Commissioner of Education & post plan on its website; provides requirements for plan; requires commissioner or DOE to provide certain notification; provides timeframe within which school district must submit revisions to its plan; authorizes SBE to take certain actions.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-103.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable (PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee) — 14–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Education & Employment Committee) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Education Quality Subcommittee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Benjamin — primary (person)
- Education Quality Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Fine — primary (person)
- Alvarez — cosponsor (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Caruso — cosponsor (person)
- Casello — cosponsor (person)
- Cassel — cosponsor (person)
- Chambliss — cosponsor (person)
- Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Daniels — cosponsor (person)
- Dunkley — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hinson — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Leek — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Melo — cosponsor (person)
- Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, F. — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Waldron — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-01-30 Filed
filing - 2023-02-07 Referred to Education Quality Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2023-02-07 Referred to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2023-02-07 Referred to Education & Employment Committee
referral-committee - 2023-02-07 Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
- 2023-03-07 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
filing, reading-1 - 2023-03-13 Added to Education Quality Subcommittee agenda
- 2023-03-15 Favorable with CS by Education Quality Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-03-16 Reported out of Education Quality Subcommittee
- 2023-03-16 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2023-03-16 CS Filed
filing - 2023-03-16 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
reading-1 - 2023-03-17 Referred to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2023-03-17 Referred to Education & Employment Committee
referral-committee - 2023-03-17 Now in PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
- 2023-03-20 Added to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- 2023-03-22 Favorable by PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-03-22 Reported out of PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
- 2023-03-22 Now in Education & Employment Committee
- 2023-03-29 Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- 2023-03-31 Favorable by Education & Employment Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-03-31 Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- 2023-03-31 Bill released to House Calendar
- 2023-03-31 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2023-04-13 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2023)
- 2023-04-20 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2023-04-20 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2023-04-20 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-04-20 CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0
passage - 2023-04-20 In Messages
- 2023-04-21 Referred to Fiscal Policy
referral-committee - 2023-04-25 Received
enrolled - 2023-05-02 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy
withdrawal - 2023-05-02 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2023-05-02 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 05/04/23
- 2023-05-04 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2023-05-04 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-05-04 CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0
passage - 2023-05-04 In Messages
- 2023-05-04 Ordered enrolled
enrolled - 2023-05-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2023-05-17 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2023-05-18 Chapter No. 2023-103
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/791aea6b-9da9-4f3b-90da-2a07cf3cec46. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).