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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 571: Career Planning Opportunities for Students

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 571 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 12, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Career Planning Opportunities for Students. Primary sponsor: Kim Kendall (Republican). It lists 4 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Education & Employment Committee.

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.

Career Planning Opportunities for Students; Provides requirements relating to work-based learning opportunities, career fairs, career planning courses, & apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs; requires student's personalized academic & career plan to be reviewed annually for certain period of time & signed by certain persons; requires such plan to be revised as necessary; requires adoption of regulations & rules to enable certain students to earn postsecondary credit & career education clock hours for certain training & education acquired while apprentice or preapprentice; requires Articulation Coordinating Committee to convene workshop by date certain to develop certain process; requires Articulation Coordinating Committee to review apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs &, annually, approve prioritized list of postsecondary course equivalencies & minimum postsecondary credit or career education clock hours to be awarded for certain programs; requires certain information to be included in statewide articulation agreement; requires state universities, FCS institutions, & career centers to award postsecondary credit or career education clock hours; provides that postsecondary credit or career education clock hours are guaranteed to transfer to other state universities, FCS institutions, & career centers.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3 · Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Kim KendallPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse18
Jose AlvarezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse46
Leonard SpencerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse45
Paula StarkCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse47
Allison TantCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse9

“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 Education & Employment Committee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Now in Education & Employment Committee
  4. Reported out of Education Administration Subcommittee
  5. Favorable by Education Administration Subcommittee
  6. Added to Education Administration Subcommittee agenda
  7. Now in Education Administration Subcommittee
  8. Reported out of Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
  9. Favorable by Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
  10. Added to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee agenda
  11. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  12. Now in Careers & Workforce Subcommittee

Showing 12 most recent of 16 actions. Full history

Sources

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