republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-7032.md

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Bill	Education	Education; Establishing the Graduation Alternative to Traditional Education (GATE) Program within the Department of Education; revising the services to which the one-stop delivery system is intended to provide access; requiring a student’s certified school counselor or other school personnel to inform the student of opportunities in the GATE Program; requiring district school boards to notify all candidates for the high school equivalency diploma of adult secondary and postsecondary education options, including specified eligibility requirements; creating the GATE Scholarship Program; requiring the department to administer the program, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 7032	Florida SB 7032 (2024)	bill	labor	enacted	2024-161	Appropriations Education Postsecondary	5	34	5	2024-01-11	2024-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/8d3a43b6-ad64-438b-aaa0-0721dd0dfcb6	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7032/ByCategory	8b6b87d06e63f7244bfc9821a5fd975f810165ca2a7786a9636fbef9424c1b6b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 7032 (2024) — Education

Education; Establishing the Graduation Alternative to Traditional Education (GATE) Program within the Department of Education; revising the services to which the one-stop delivery system is intended to provide access; requiring a student’s certified school counselor or other school personnel to inform the student of opportunities in the GATE Program; requiring district school boards to notify all candidates for the high school equivalency diploma of adult secondary and postsecondary education options, including specified eligibility requirements; creating the GATE Scholarship Program; requiring the department to administer the program, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-161.

Version chain

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

1. S 7032 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 7032 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 7032 pb (committee substitute) — source
4. S 7032 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 7032 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Appropriations — primary (person)
• Education Postsecondary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-11 Submitted for consideration by Education Postsecondary
• 2024-01-11 On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 01/16/24, 11:00 am, 301 Senate Building
• 2024-01-16 Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• 2024-01-16 Filed filing
• 2024-01-17 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Introduced introduction
• 2024-02-19 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2024-02-22 CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-26 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-26 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-26 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
• 2024-02-27 CS by Appropriations read 1st time
• 2024-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-28 In Messages
• 2024-03-04 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-03-04 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024)
• 2024-03-04 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-05 Amendment 616755 adopted
• 2024-03-05 Amendment 089309 adopted
• 2024-03-05 Amendment 133095 adopted
• 2024-03-05 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-06 In returning messages
• 2024-03-07 Concurred in 3 amendment(s) (089309, 133095, 616755)
• 2024-03-07 CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 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. 2024-161

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8d3a43b6-ad64-438b-aaa0-0721dd0dfcb6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).