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type: "Bill"
title: "Education"
description: "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 students 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 7032"
citation: "Florida SB 7032 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["labor"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-161"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Education Postsecondary"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d3a43b6-ad64-438b-aaa0-0721dd0dfcb6"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7032/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8b6b87d06e63f7244bfc9821a5fd975f810165ca2a7786a9636fbef9424c1b6b"
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 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 students 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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7032/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 7032 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7032/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 7032 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7032/BillText/pb/HTML)
4. **S 7032 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7032/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 7032 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7032/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **160** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1120** (pass) · lower
- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — **80** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d3a43b6-ad64-438b-aaa0-0721dd0dfcb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).