# Florida SB 2510: Prekindergarten Through Grade 12 Education

Florida SB 2510, Prekindergarten Through Grade 12 Education, is a 2025 Senate bill sponsored by Appropriations; status signed, last action 2025-07-03 (Chapter No. 2025-203, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: Florida SB 2510
- State: Florida
- Session: 2025
- Title: Prekindergarten Through Grade 12 Education
- Status: signed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-03-28
- Last action: 2025-07-03, Chapter No. 2025-203, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198)
- Sponsor: Appropriations
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: Appropriation, House Calendar
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 5 (244 yes, 46 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 22

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- More children qualify for learning scholarships: benefit, high. New Worlds Scholarship Accounts are available to students in Florida’s Voluntary Prekindergarten program or public kindergarten through grade 5. Students no longer need to show the earlier reading or math difficulties. Accounts remain first come, first served, subject to available funds. Parents no…
- More students gain Schools of Hope access: benefit, medium. Schools of Hope can serve students from persistently low-performing schools or students living in a Florida Opportunity Zone. Qualifying school criteria include specified low grades, closure within two years after a notice of intent, or low test performance. The test route means the bottom 10% in g…
- Teacher bonuses for Cambridge exam results: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, districts pay teachers $50 per AICE student or $25 per pre-AICE student scoring “E” or higher. Teachers at schools graded “D” or “F” get an extra $500 for AICE or $250 for pre-AICE, with at least one qualifying student. A teacher receiving the $500 bonus cannot also receive…
- Teacher bonuses for International Baccalaureate results: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, districts pay International Baccalaureate teachers $50 per student with a qualifying result. Students qualify by scoring at least 4 on an exam or earning at least “C” in Theory of Knowledge. Teachers of the applicable course at D- or F-graded schools get another $500 when at…
- Teachers earn bonuses for career credentials: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, a replacement CAPE supplement provides teacher bonuses rather than ending certification-linked bonuses altogether. Teachers who provided qualifying instruction receive $25, $50, or $75 per student assigned funding values of 0.1, 0.2, or 0.3. They receive $100 for values of 0…
- Schools can offer parents reading guidance: benefit, low. District reading plans can include resources for parents of children who struggle with reading or read below grade level. These resources can explain eligibility for the New Worlds Reading Initiative. Districts are allowed, but not required, to provide them.
- Schools get funding for career credentials: benefit, low. Districts receive supplemental funding for approved digital certificates and industry credentials, including qualifying middle-grades credentials, instead of former student-count bonuses. Acceleration credentials must count toward at least 15 college credits and be completed successfully. Career Pa…
- Schools of Hope gain sponsorship routes: benefit, low. Hope operators apply to a state university or Florida College System institution, or submit a notice to a district. Operators using an institutional agreement must also notify the relevant district. The sponsor and operator must enter a performance-based agreement. On request, the education departm…
- Schools of Hope get free facilities: benefit, low. Districts must let Schools of Hope use all or part of underused, vacant, or surplus district facilities. Facility-related services follow State Board of Education rules. Hope operators establishing schools can use identified facilities at no cost. The law removes the former option to charge an agre…
- Small districts get extra funding weights: benefit, low. Florida’s base school funding formula includes extra student-count weights for qualifying small districts and small, isolated schools. The small-district adjustment covers districts below 10,000 full-time-equivalent students with fewer than three students at special-education Support Levels IV or V…
- Sunland education program receives state funding: benefit, low. The agency operating the Marianna Sunland Center’s education program receives an annual state allocation. It equals the school funding the local district would receive for that program under the specified formulas. The agency can operate the program directly or through a grant or contract with anot…
- Public agencies shielded from school debt: benefit, low. Schools of Hope are responsible for their loans, bonds, and other financing agreements, payable only from pledged funding sources. Florida, state universities, Florida College System institutions, and school districts cannot pledge their credit or taxing power for these schools. Financing from outs…
- Schools of Hope gain ongoing support: benefit, low. Schools of Hope can keep receiving funds after their first five years by meeting state performance measures. They can spend performance-based funds on any operating costs. Beginning July 1, 2027, the revolving loan fund’s administrator must transfer money when the Schools of Hope program falls belo…
- Families face tighter learning scholarship rules: cost, medium. New Worlds Scholarship Accounts close after one consecutive fiscal year without activity, down from three; remaining money returns to the state. Districts and private preschool providers no longer must explain scholarship access when sharing screening and progress results. Districts also lose the s…
- Grade limits narrow school credential support: cost, low. Required availability of CAPE Digital Tool certificates now covers public elementary students, not middle-grades students. Schools can still offer those certificates in middle grades. Beginning in fiscal year 2026-2027, the education commissioner sets eligible grades for funding-listed industry cer…
- Schools lose homeroom adviser funding credits: cost, low. Districts no longer receive extra student-count funding for approved homeroom adviser programs in grades 4 through 8. The former credit counted program hours, up to 36 hours per fiscal year. The law removes the funding credit, not the adviser program itself.
- District support adjusts to student enrollment: mixed, medium. Florida recalculates school enrichment, guaranteed special-education, and juvenile-justice education funding during the year using actual full-time-equivalent enrollment. The property-tax equalizing supplement also follows actual enrollment, allowing allocations to rise or fall. The amendments remo…
- State school support follows actual enrollment: mixed, medium. University- and Florida College System-sponsored charter schools receive base funding, a property-tax equalizing supplement, and a state-funded discretionary contribution. They also receive shares of targeted program funds when their students or programs qualify. The state recalculates discretionar…
- School funding faces new review checks: mixed, low. Districts must report student membership by program and school for Florida’s school funding formula. Final reports separately count district and Family Empowerment Scholarship students without duplicates; the education department sets counting intervals. Beginning July 1, 2025, the department must…
- School rewards shift for advanced coursework: mixed, low. The law moves advanced-course rewards into an academic acceleration supplement, rather than ending all support for these achievements. It replaces former dual-enrollment student-count bonuses of 0.16 and 0.08 for qualifying courses and 0.30 for associate degrees with a 3.0 GPA. The new supplement i…
- Schools of Hope funding and oversight: mixed, low. Schools of Hope students count toward district building and Public Education Capital Outlay maintenance funding calculations. The law sets no dollar amount for this change. Schools operating under performance-based agreements must send sponsors quarterly financial summaries and meet annual audit ru…
- Schools retain targeted early graduation funding: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, the law replaces former early-graduation funding credits with the same achievement values in a supplement. Schools generate a 0.25 value when students graduate one semester early, or 0.5 at least one year early. Districts must spend this money on early-graduation options, no…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Appropriations

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-06-16 | Senate | Senate Floor Vote | pass | 25 | 9 |   |
| 2025-06-16 | House | House Floor Vote | pass | 80 | 24 |   |
| 2025-05-13 | House | House Floor Vote | pass | 88 | 10 |   |
| 2025-04-09 | Senate | Senate Floor Vote | pass | 33 | 3 |   |
| 2025-04-02 | Senate | Appropriations Vote | pass | 18 | 0 |   |

## Actions (41)

- 2025-07-03: Chapter No. 2025-203, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198)
- 2025-06-30: Approved by Governor
- 2025-06-27: Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- 2025-06-16: Ordered engrossed, then enrolled (Senate)
- 2025-06-16: Passed as amended by Conference Committee Report; YEAS 80, NAYS 24 (House)
- 2025-06-16: Conference Committee Report adopted (House)
- 2025-06-16: Amendment 825824 adopted (House)
- 2025-06-16: Conference Committee Report considered (House)
- 2025-06-16: In Messages (House)
- 2025-06-16: Passed as amended by Conference Committee Report; YEAS 25 NAYS 9 -SJ 1263 (Senate)
- 2025-06-16: Conference Committee Report adopted (825824) -SJ 1263 (Senate)
- 2025-06-16: Conference Committee Report received -SJ 1245 (Senate)
- 2025-06-02: Conference Committee appointed: Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget: Hooper (Chair), Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government/Agriculture and Natural Resources: Brodeur (Chair), Arrington, Berman, Burton, Collins, DiCeglie, Grall, McClain, Pizzo, Rodriguez, Sharief, Truenow, Boyd (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government/State Administration: Brodeur (Chair), Arrington, Berman, Burton, Collins, DiCeglie, Grall, McClain, Pizzo, Rodriguez, Sharief, Truenow; Appropriations Conference Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice/Justice: Garcia (Chair), Ingoglia, Martin, Osgood, Polsky, Rouson, Simon, Wright, Yarborough, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Health and Human Services/Health Care: Trumbull (Chair), Berman, Brodeur, Burton, Davis, Garcia, Gruters, Harrell, Rodriguez, Rouson, Boyd (At Large), Passidomo (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Higher Education/Higher Education: Harrell (Chair), Bradley, Burgess, Calatayud, Davis, Leek, Smith, Trumbull, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education/PreK-12: Burgess (Chair), Bradley, Calatayud, Gaetz, Jones, Osgood, Pizzo, Simon, Yarborough, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development/Transportation and Economic Development: DiCeglie (Chair), Arrington, Avila, Bernard, Collins, Grall, Ingoglia, Leek, Martin, McClain, Polsky, Sharief, Smith, Truenow, Wright, Berman (At Large), Boyd (At Large), Brodeur (At Large), Gruters (At Large), Passidomo (At Large), Rouson (At Large); (Senate)
- 2025-06-02: Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget) (Senate)
- 2025-06-02: Conference Committee appointed (House)
- 2025-06-02: Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Budget) (House)
- 2025-05-13: In returning messages (Senate)
- 2025-05-13: Passed the Senate bill as amended by House and we accede to conference (House)
- 2025-05-13: Passed as amended; YEAS 88, NAYS 10 (House)
- 2025-05-13: Read 3rd time (House)
- 2025-05-13: Added to Third Reading Calendar (House)
- 2025-05-13: Placed on 3rd reading (House)
- 2025-05-13: Amendment 859199 adopted (House)
- 2025-05-13: Read 2nd time (House)
- 2025-05-13: Added to Second Reading Calendar (House)
- 2025-05-13: Read 1st time (House)
- 2025-05-13: Bill referred to House Calendar (House)
- 2025-04-09: In Messages (House)
- 2025-04-09: Immediately certified -SJ 369 (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: The Senate requests that the House pass the bill as passed by the Senate or agree to include the bill in the Budget Conference -SJ 369 (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Passed; YEAS 33 NAYS 3 -SJ 369 (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Read 3rd time -SJ 369 (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Read 2nd time -SJ 369 (Senate)
- 2025-04-08: Introduced (Senate)
- 2025-04-03: Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25 (Senate)
- 2025-04-03: Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading (Senate)
- 2025-04-03: Filed (Senate)
- 2025-04-02: Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 (Senate)
- 2025-03-31: On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/03/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled (Senate)
- 2025-03-28: On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building (Senate)
- 2025-03-28: Submitted for consideration by Appropriations (Senate)

## Bill text

- er, 2025-07-01: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/er/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/er/PDF)
- e1, 2025-06-18: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/e1/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/e1/PDF)
- Filed, 2025-04-03: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/Filed/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/Filed/PDF)
- pb, 2025-03-28: [HTML](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/pb/HTML), [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/pb/PDF)

## Related bills

- HB 1427: Nursing Education Programs (vetoed)
- HB 1095: Criminal Offender Substance Abuse Program (vetoed)
- HB 6017: Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death (vetoed)
- HB 1445: Public Officers and Employees (vetoed)
- HB 11: Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates (vetoed)
- HB 5015: State Group Insurance (vetoed)

## Sources
- [er (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/er/HTML)
- [er (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/er/PDF)
- [e1 (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/e1/HTML)
- [e1 (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/e1/PDF)
- [Filed (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/Filed/HTML)
- [Filed (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/Filed/PDF)
- [pb (HTML)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/pb/HTML)
- [pb (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2510/BillText/pb/PDF)

## Related
- [HB 1427: Nursing Education Programs](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1427-2025)
- [HB 1095: Criminal Offender Substance Abuse Program](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1095-2025)
- [HB 6017: Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB6017-2025)
- [HB 1445: Public Officers and Employees](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1445-2025)
- [HB 11: Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB11-2025)
- [HB 5015: State Group Insurance](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB5015-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-SB2510-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).