republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2026/sb-178.md

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Bill	Athletics in Public K-12 Schools	Athletics in Public K-12 Schools; Requiring the Florida High School Athletic Association to adopt bylaws authorizing a head coach to support the welfare of a student by using personal funds to provide certain effects to the student; requiring the head coach to report such use of personal funds to the association; providing that such use of personal funds is presumed not to be an impermissible benefit, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2026	SB 178	Florida SB 178 (2026)	bill	k torts	enacted	2026-90	Jones Judiciary	5	39	6	2025-10-14	2026-05-26	openstates	ocd-bill/b0ac3b88-604f-4bda-8cfe-cf92a481be24	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/178/ByCategory	e980f21e953dbe25a7925644f9d5e8cd3758e54a6757c48d49575121b7a8c0f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 178 (2026) — Athletics in Public K-12 Schools

Athletics in Public K-12 Schools; Requiring the Florida High School Athletic Association to adopt bylaws authorizing a head coach to support the welfare of a student by using personal funds to provide certain effects to the student; requiring the head coach to report such use of personal funds to the association; providing that such use of personal funds is presumed not to be an impermissible benefit, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-90.

Version chain

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

1. S 178 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 178 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 178 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 178 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 178 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Returning Messages — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Education Pre-K - 12 — primary (organization)
• Jones — primary (person)
• Judiciary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-10-14 Filed filing
• 2025-11-03 Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Judiciary; Rules referral-committee
• 2026-01-13 Introduced introduction
• 2026-01-15 On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 01/20/26, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2026-01-20 CS by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• 2026-01-21 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2026-01-22 Now in Judiciary
• 2026-01-22 CS by Education Pre-K - 12 read 1st time
• 2026-01-29 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/03/26, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2026-02-03 CS/CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
• 2026-02-04 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2026-02-04 CS/CS by Judiciary read 1st time
• 2026-02-04 Now in Rules
• 2026-02-05 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/10/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2026-02-10 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-10 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2026-02-17 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
• 2026-02-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-02-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-02-19 CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2026-02-19 Immediately certified
• 2026-02-19 In Messages
• 2026-03-09 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2026-03-09 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
• 2026-03-09 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2026-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-03-10 Amendment 570171 adopted
• 2026-03-10 Amendment 684905 adopted as amended
• 2026-03-10 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2026-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-10 CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 passage
• 2026-03-10 Amendment 144123 engrossed amendment (replaces 684905, 570171)
• 2026-03-10 In returning messages
• 2026-03-11 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (144123)
• 2026-03-11 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2026-03-11 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2026-05-21 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-22 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-26 Chapter No. 2026-90

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0ac3b88-604f-4bda-8cfe-cf92a481be24. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).