Educational Dollars for Duty Program

What it does

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

Citing this act the “Educational Dollars for Duty Program Expansion Act”; requiring the program to set aside a certain amount of funds to provide tuition assistance to spouses and children of active members of the Florida National Guard; requiring the Department of Military Affairs to oversee implementation and enforcement, etc.

Every action

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

1. Jan 27, 2025SenateFiled
2. Feb 3, 2025CommitteeReferred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy · Senate Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security
3. Mar 4, 2025SenateIntroduced
4. Mar 6, 2025CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 03/11/25, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building · Senate Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security
5. Mar 11, 2025CommitteeFavorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 · Senate Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security5–0 vote
6. Mar 11, 2025CommitteeNow in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development · Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
7. May 3, 2025SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
8. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development · Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Kristen Aston ArringtonD Primary sponsor · District 25