republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-544.md

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Bill	Swimming Lesson Voucher Program	Swimming Lesson Voucher Program; Creating the program within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; requiring the department to establish a network of swimming lesson vendors to participate in the program; requiring the department or a contracted nonprofit organization to attempt to secure a vendor in each county; specifying eligibility criteria for the program, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 544	Florida SB 544 (2024)	bill	(adopted)	enacted	2024-89	Health Policy Hutson	4	33	5	2023-11-20	2024-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/7036726b-dc3d-4a09-87d9-73519b8a1115	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/544/ByCategory	f07fd4fe6d095ba90f4c22aff87deb171519989db1639b6eb9509e8ebd9d59c0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 544 (2024) — Swimming Lesson Voucher Program

Swimming Lesson Voucher Program; Creating the program within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; requiring the department to establish a network of swimming lesson vendors to participate in the program; requiring the department or a contracted nonprofit organization to attempt to secure a vendor in each county; specifying eligibility criteria for the program, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-89.

Version chain

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

1. S 544 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 544 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 544 e1 (engrossed) — source
4. S 544 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 19–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Health Policy — primary (person)
• Hutson — primary (person)
• Berman — cosponsor (person)
• Book — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-20 Filed filing
• 2023-12-05 Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-11 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/16/24, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-01-16 CS by Health Policy; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• 2024-01-17 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-01-17 CS by Health Policy read 1st time
• 2024-01-18 Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
• 2024-01-19 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 01/24/24, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-01-24 Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-25 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2024-01-26 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/31/24, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2024-01-31 Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-01 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-08 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/14/24
• 2024-02-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-14 Amendment(s) adopted (711612)
• 2024-02-14 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-14 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-14 Immediately certified
• 2024-02-14 In Messages
• 2024-03-01 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-03-01 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
• 2024-03-01 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-02 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-15 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-16 Chapter No. 2024-89

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7036726b-dc3d-4a09-87d9-73519b8a1115. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).