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SB 1440 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Educational Choice

Summary
Educational Choice; Requiring, rather than authorizing, a school district to use specified reports and plans of care to complete a matrix of services for a nonpublic school student without an individual education plan; revising the instructional materials for which Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program funds may be used; providing requirements for a home education instructional program; revising the tutoring programs for which such scholarship program funds may be used; revising a date by which parents may apply to renew their students’ scholarships, etc.
Issues: ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill revises Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program to expand allowable uses (e.g., instructional materials, tutoring), directly supporting tax-credit funded education as a budget/fiscal mechanism.90% confidence ✓ EducationSupports EducationExpands educational access through tax-credit scholarship program revisions, allowing broader use of funds for private/homeschool options and revising eligibility requirements.95% confidence
Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Mar 10, 2025 Last action Jun 16, 2025
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Committee
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Mar 10, 2025
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Committee
Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; Fiscal Policy
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Stan McClain
RRepublican
FL
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