Florida Senate Bill 318

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on March 13 2026 - 100% progression
Action: 2026-03-13 - Died in Messages
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

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.

Educational Scholarship Programs

Senate Appropriations Committee	Sen. Don Gaetz [R]	Sen. Corey Simon [R]	Sen. Jason Pizzo [N]
Sen. Daniel Burgess [R]	Sen. Rosalind Osgood [D]	Sen. Darryl Rouson [D]

2026-01-14 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RCS#4 (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-12-10 - Senate - Senate Appropriations (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-03-13	House	Died in Messages
2026-01-14	House	In Messages
2026-01-14	Senate	Immediately certified
2026-01-14	Senate	CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
2026-01-14	Senate	Read 3rd time
2026-01-14	Senate	Amendment(s) adopted (629180, 713876, 789314)
2026-01-14	Senate	Read 2nd time
2026-01-13	Senate	CS by Appropriations read 1st time
2026-01-13	Senate	Introduced
2026-01-12	Senate	Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/14/26
2025-12-12	Senate	Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2025-12-12	Senate	Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2025-12-10	Senate	CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
2025-12-01	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 12/10/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
2025-11-21	Senate	Referred to Appropriations
2025-11-21	Senate	Filed

S182 (Similar To) 2026-04-21 - Chapter No. 2026-33

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
1002	394		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1002	395		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1002	40		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1002	421		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1002	45		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1003	485		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1003	4935		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1008	25		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1010	20		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1010	305		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1011	61		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1011	62		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1011	687		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1011	689		Amended Code	See Bill Text
11	45		Amended Code	See Bill Text
212	099		Amended Code	See Bill Text
402	22		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/BillText/c1/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/BillText/e1/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Amendment/348712/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Amendment/899626/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Amendment/174286/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Amendment/884508/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Amendment/442232/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Amendment/713876/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Amendment/789314/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Amendment/629180/HTML
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Analyses/2026s00318.pre.ap.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Analyses/2026s00318.ap.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Vote/2025-12-10%200900AM~S00318%20Vote%20Record.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/318/Vote/SenateVote_s00318c1004.PDF