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type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Educational Facilities Financing"
description: "Higher Educational Facilities Financing; Specifying when the term for a new appointee to the Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority begins; authorizing the authority to conduct meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; authorizing the authority to contract with an entity to assist with administrative matters; prohibiting the authority from entering into a financing agreement with a participating institution for a project if at the time the agreement is executed certain conditions exist, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 598"
citation: "Florida SB 598 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["educational facilities bonds"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-92"
primary_sponsors: ["Education Postsecondary", "Martin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-08"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eef89de5-81c6-4953-b05e-21bbe1c6f425"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/598/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c38a272295b30131f801a1759a5c8ab13c1f9e19f8d6b6f1c5a5b4cad5d98432"
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 SB 598 (2023) — Higher Educational Facilities Financing
Higher Educational Facilities Financing; Specifying when the term for a new appointee to the Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority begins; authorizing the authority to conduct meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; authorizing the authority to contract with an entity to assist with administrative matters; prohibiting the authority from entering into a financing agreement with a participating institution for a project if at the time the agreement is executed certain conditions exist, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-92.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 598 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/598/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 598 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/598/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 598 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/598/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **180** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **80** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **100** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Education Postsecondary — primary (person)
- Martin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-08** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-16** Referred to Education Postsecondary; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 03/07/23, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-07** CS by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-08** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-08** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2023-03-08** CS by Education Postsecondary read 1st time
- **2023-03-17** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/22/23, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-22** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-22** Now in Rules
- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/11/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-11** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-11** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/18/23
- **2023-04-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-19** In Messages
- **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 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Substituted for HB 257
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **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; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** 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. 2023-92
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eef89de5-81c6-4953-b05e-21bbe1c6f425`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).