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Florida · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 2516: Higher Education

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

SB 2516 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 13, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Higher Education. Primary sponsor: Appropriations. Most recent recorded action (March 13, 2026): Died in Messages; Companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 1246 (Ch. 2026-101).

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.

Higher Education; Establishing the Florida Center for Nursing within the University of South Florida; providing that a specified fee waiver applies to a student’s out-of-pocket expenses for tuition and fees after other aid is applied; providing that the LINE Fund was established for shortages in health science professions in addition to nursing; requiring institutions awarded grant funds to submit an annual report by a certain date to the center instead of the Board of Governors or the Department of Education; requiring the Office of Reimagining Education and Career Help to provide specified data to the department, etc.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
AppropriationsPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“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 Messages; Companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 1246 (Ch. 2026-101)
  2. In Messages
  3. Immediately certified
  4. The Senate requests that the House pass the bill as passed by the Senate or agree to include the bill in the Budget Conference
  5. Passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0
  6. Read 3rd time
  7. Read 2nd time
  8. Introduced
  9. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/20/26
  10. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  11. Filed
  12. Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0

Showing 12 most recent of 14 actions. Full history

Sources

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