republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/hb-443.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education"
description: "Education; Provides that a charter school is a public facility for the purpose of concurrency; authorizes a charter school governing board to adopt its own code of student conduct; authorizes a student in a full-time virtual instruction program to participate on an interscholastic athletic team at a public school in the school district in which the student resides or to develop an agreement to participate at a private school, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 443"
citation: "Florida HB 443 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-106"
primary_sponsors: ["Rizo", "Snyder"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 47
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/244b8d68-debf-4271-afb7-738331eb03f4"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/443/ByCategory"
source_hash: "827ad436b402a65debfb4e2efcea591cc4aa93091dfd5018d5f7063939eeb183"
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 HB 443 (2025) — Education

Education; Provides that a charter school is a public facility for the purpose of concurrency; authorizes a charter school governing board to adopt its own code of student conduct; authorizes a student in a full-time virtual instruction program to participate on an interscholastic athletic team at a public school in the school district in which the student resides or to develop an agreement to participate at a private school, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-106.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 443 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/443/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 443 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/443/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 443 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/443/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 443 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/443/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 443 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/443/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **83–28** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **86–25** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **30–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Education & Employment Committee — primary (organization)
- Education Administration Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Rizo — primary (person)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Kendall — cosponsor (person)
- Maggard — cosponsor (person)
- Porras — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to Education Administration Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Now in Education Administration Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** Added to Education Administration Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-27** Favorable with CS by Education Administration Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Reported out of Education Administration Subcommittee
- **2025-03-28** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-28** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-31** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-03-31** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-04** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2025-04-08** Favorable with CS by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-09** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-09** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 83, NAYS 28 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-24** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-24** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-29** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-29** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 822
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amendment(s) adopted (147816)
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 30 NAYS 7 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In Messages
- **2025-05-01** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-01** Amendment 147816 Concur
- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 86, NAYS 25 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-02** Chapter No. 2025-106

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/244b8d68-debf-4271-afb7-738331eb03f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).