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type: "Bill"
title: "Extracurricular Activities"
description: "Extracurricular Activities; Authorizing district school boards to adopt policies for the use of certain funds to provide funding to specified persons relating to extracurricular activities; revising eligibility requirements for a student to participate in an interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activity; requiring the athletic director or other appropriate administrator to maintain records for all eligible students participating in interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activities at a member school; authorizing a public school to assess an activity fee for certain students; prohibiting a student from participating in interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activities at two different schools within the same school year unless the student meets specified criteria, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 538"
citation: "Florida SB 538 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-93"
primary_sponsors: ["Judiciary", "Simon"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-11-17"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dd30ce5-c538-4840-9769-95333d4a8b72"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/538/ByCategory"
source_hash: "4f39993f4d04b5be56bb870377878037b05acd17a4b9c923587756929fa09e10"
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 538 (2026) — Extracurricular Activities
Extracurricular Activities; Authorizing district school boards to adopt policies for the use of certain funds to provide funding to specified persons relating to extracurricular activities; revising eligibility requirements for a student to participate in an interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activity; requiring the athletic director or other appropriate administrator to maintain records for all eligible students participating in interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activities at a member school; authorizing a public school to assess an activity fee for certain students; prohibiting a student from participating in interscholastic or intrascholastic extracurricular activities at two different schools within the same school year unless the student meets specified criteria, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-93.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 538 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/538/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 538 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/538/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 538 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/538/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 538 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/538/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 538 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/538/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 538 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/538/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **80** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **230** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **370** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **110** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1046** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Education Pre-K - 12 — primary (organization)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)
- Simon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-11-17** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-01** 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
- **2026-01-22** 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 11 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** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-11** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-11** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2026-02-12** 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
- **2026-03-05** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-05** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/9/2026)
- **2026-03-05** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 838301 adopted
- **2026-03-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 104, NAYS 6 `passage`
- **2026-03-09** In returning messages
- **2026-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (838301)
- **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. 2026-93
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1dd30ce5-c538-4840-9769-95333d4a8b72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).