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Bill	School Choice	School Choice; Revises contributions & provisions for Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; revises provisions for Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, Hope Scholarship Program, virtual instruction program providers, private school requirements, & students in personalized education programs.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 1403	Florida HB 1403 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-163	Tomkow	5	48	3	2024-01-06	2024-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/6d138a80-1fe5-4c70-8304-5fa6e02d8a00	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1403/ByCategory	4d544e95399ca0859ce395df8a1438d2946d477064150c7aa791699fcb9f8c35	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 1403 (2024) — School Choice

School Choice; Revises contributions & provisions for Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; revises provisions for Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, Hope Scholarship Program, virtual instruction program providers, private school requirements, & students in personalized education programs.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-163.

Version chain

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

1. H 1403 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 1403 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 1403 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 1403 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. H 1403 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage — 89–18 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 109–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Choice & Innovation Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Education & Employment Committee — primary (organization)
• Tomkow — primary (person)
• Bell — cosponsor (person)
• Botana — cosponsor (person)
• Daniels — cosponsor (person)
• Leek — cosponsor (person)
• Mooney — cosponsor (person)
• Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
• Roth — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
• Yeager — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-06 Filed filing
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Choice & Innovation Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Referred to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Education & Employment Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Now in Choice & Innovation Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 Added to Choice & Innovation Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-11 Favorable with CS by Choice & Innovation Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-11 Reported out of Choice & Innovation Subcommittee
• 2024-01-11 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-11 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-12 Referred to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Referred to Education & Employment Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Now in PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-01-12 Added to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-12 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-17 Favorable by PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-17 Reported out of PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-01-17 Now in Education & Employment Committee
• 2024-01-19 Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
• 2024-01-23 Favorable with CS by Education & Employment Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-23 Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
• 2024-01-23 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-23 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-24 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-01-24 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/1/2024)
• 2024-01-24 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2024-02-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-01 CS passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 1 passage
• 2024-02-01 In Messages
• 2024-02-02 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Withdrawn from Appropriations withdrawal
• 2024-03-06 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-06 Substituted for SB 7048
• 2024-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-06 Amendment(s) adopted (203782)
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-06 In Messages
• 2024-03-07 Added to Senate Message List
• 2024-03-07 Amendment 203782 Concur
• 2024-03-07 CS passed as amended; YEAS 89, NAYS 18 passage
• 2024-03-07 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-25 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-09 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-13 Chapter No. 2024-163; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 7004 (Ch. 2024-160)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d138a80-1fe5-4c70-8304-5fa6e02d8a00. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).