The following bill has been filed for the 2022 Florida legislative session, which begins Jan. 11 and runs through March 11.
BILL NO: HB 487
TITLE: State Scholarship Programs — 2022
SPONSOR: State Rep. James Bush III, D — Opa Locka
WHAT IT WOULD DO: The bill would rename Florida’s five state K-12 scholarship programs — Opportunity Scholarship, Family Empowerment Scholarship, Florida Tax Credit Scholarship, Reading Scholarship Account and Hope Scholarship — in honor of Mary McLeod Bethune, an educator and civil rights activist who founded what is now called Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. The bill would keep the original scholarship names but add Bethune’s last name to the beginning of each.
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