A Florida bill requiring public colleges and universities to survey students, faculty, and staff about their political beliefs has passed the state Legislature and is headed for Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk. House Bill 233, which had already been approved by the Republican-dominated state House in a 77-42 party-line vote in March, cleared the state Senate by 25 to 15 on Wednesday. If signed into law, the bill would require the state university system’s Board of Governors and the State Board of Education to conduct and publish an annual survey to “assess the status of intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” on public university campuses. Completing the survey would be voluntary for those in the campus communities. The survey must be “objective, nonpartisan, and statistically valid,” and its goal is to find whether “competing ideas and perspectives” are fairly presented during lectures and whether students, faculty and staff “feel free to express …