Florida · House Bill 571 · 2025 Regular Session

Career Planning Opportunities for Students

HB 571 Sponsored by Kim Kendall Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 12, 2025
  2. In committee Feb 19, 2025
  3. Passed the House  
  4. Passed the Senate  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

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 &…

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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.

Every action

16 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

Show the 8 earlier steps
  1. HouseFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee · House Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
  3. CommitteeReferred to Education Administration Subcommittee · House Education Administration Subcommittee
  4. CommitteeReferred to Education & Employment Committee · House Education & Employment Committee
  5. CommitteeNow in Careers & Workforce Subcommittee · House Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
  6. House1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  7. CommitteeAdded to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee agenda · House Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
  8. CommitteeFavorable by Careers & Workforce Subcommittee · House Careers & Workforce Subcommittee15–0 vote
  1. CommitteeReported out of Careers & Workforce Subcommittee · House Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
  2. CommitteeNow in Education Administration Subcommittee · House Education Administration Subcommittee
  3. CommitteeAdded to Education Administration Subcommittee agenda · House Education Administration Subcommittee
  4. CommitteeFavorable by Education Administration Subcommittee · House Education Administration Subcommittee16–0 vote
  5. CommitteeReported out of Education Administration Subcommittee · House Education Administration Subcommittee
  6. CommitteeNow in Education & Employment Committee · House Education & Employment Committee
  7. HouseIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  8. CommitteeDied in Education & Employment Committee · House Education & Employment Committee

Roll calls

2 recorded votes: 0 on the floor, 2 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

DateWhereQuestionResult
Mar 12, 2025 House Careers & Workforce Subcommittee Favorable by Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
Members

Yes · 15

Not voting · 3

 Passed 15–0
Mar 19, 2025 House Education Administration Subcommittee Favorable by Education Administration Subcommittee
Members

Yes · 16

Not voting · 2

 Passed 16–0

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 4 cosponsors: 3 Democrats, 1 Republican.

All 4 cosponsors

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.