CS/SB 318: Educational Scholarship Programs

GENERAL BILL by Appropriations, Gaetz; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Simon, Pizzo, Burgess, Osgood, Rouson

Educational Scholarship Programs; Creating a categorical fund for implementing the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; creating the educational enrollment stabilization program to provide supplemental state funds to address changes in full-time equivalent student enrollment; renaming the Hope Scholarship Program as the Hope Program; requiring an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization to provide a parent with certain information on scholarship programs; requiring an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization to create a single application for all educational scholarship programs, etc.

Current Bill Version Posted: 1/14/2026 05:37 PM

• Senate Committee References (1)

  1. Appropriations (AP)

• Citations - Statute (17)

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  11.45	Definitions; duties; authorities; reports; rules.	Page 142 (pdf)
  212.099	Credit for contributions to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations.	Page 143 (pdf)
  402.22	Education program for students who reside in residential care facilities operated by the Department of Children and Families or the Agency for Persons with Disabilities.	Page 143 (pdf)
  1002.394	The Family Empowerment Scholarship Program.	Page 59 (pdf)
  1002.395	Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program.	Page 97 (pdf)
  1002.40	The Hope Scholarship Program.	Page 13 (pdf)
  1002.421	State school choice scholarship program accountability and oversight.	Page 15 (pdf)
  1002.45	Virtual instruction programs.	Page 143 (pdf)
  1003.485	The New Worlds Reading Initiative.	Page 133 (pdf)
  1003.4935	Middle grades career and professional academy courses and career-themed courses.	Page 144 (pdf)
  1008.25	Public school student progression; student support; coordinated screening and progress monitoring; reporting requirements.	Page 134 (pdf)
  1010.20	Cost accounting and reporting for school districts.	Page 144 (pdf)
  1010.305	Audit of student enrollment.	Page 136 (pdf)
  1011.61	Definitions.	Page 137 (pdf)
  1011.62	Funds for operation of schools.	Page 137 (pdf)
  1011.687		Page 9 (pdf)
  1011.689		Page 12 (pdf)

• Bill History

  S = Senate, H = House

  11/21/2025	S	• Filed • Referred to Appropriations
  12/1/2025	S	• On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 12/10/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
  12/10/2025	S	• CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
  12/12/2025	S	• Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) • Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  1/12/2026	S	• Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/14/26
  1/13/2026	S	• Introduced • CS by Appropriations read 1st time
  1/14/2026	S	• Read 2nd time -SJ 155 • Amendment(s) adopted (629180, 713876, 789314) -SJ 155 • Read 3rd time -SJ 155 • CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 -SJ 155 • Immediately certified -SJ 155
  1/14/2026	H	• In Messages