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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 17: Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 17 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on December 6, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program. Primary sponsor: Tae Edmonds (Democratic), Yvonne Hinson (Democratic). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Student Academic Success Subcommittee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program; Requires public middle schools to provide for administration of PSAT/NMSQT to students who meet specified criteria for specified purposes relating to Florida Bright Futures Program; requires specified test preparation resources & information be provided to certain students; provides for funding for such assessments & resources; & revises eligibility criteria for certain awards under Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 5

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Tae EdmondsPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse88
Yvonne HinsonPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse21
Dotie JosephCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse108
Mitch RosenwaldCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse98
Marie WoodsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse105

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Student Academic Success Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  4. Now in Student Academic Success Subcommittee
  5. Referred to Education & Employment Committee
  6. Referred to Budget Committee
  7. Referred to Student Academic Success Subcommittee
  8. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source