Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Dentistry"
+description: "Dentistry; Deleting the role of the Board of Dentistry in the administration of the licensure examination for dentists; deleting the requirement for the board to establish an examination fee; revising requirements for licensure as a dentist; deleting a time limitation on the validity of certain licensure examination results; deleting a board-imposed reexamination fee, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 938"
+citation: "Florida SB 938 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2024-211"
+primary_sponsors: ["Yarborough"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-12-13"
+last_action: "2024-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e53fcf3a-eed0-4084-b273-54e4a1833a58"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/938/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "9568725703b2dee3ff9a7e22b0468080ae8adb8fffec396669cf09d2101b8743"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
+---
+
+# Florida SB 938 (2024) — Dentistry
+
+Dentistry; Deleting the role of the Board of Dentistry in the administration of the licensure examination for dentists; deleting the requirement for the board to establish an examination fee; revising requirements for licensure as a dentist; deleting a time limitation on the validity of certain licensure examination results; deleting a board-imposed reexamination fee, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-211.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 938 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/938/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 938 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/938/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Yarborough — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-12-13** Filed `filing`
+- **2024-01-04** Referred to Health Policy; Fiscal Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2024-01-11** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/16/24, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
+- **2024-01-16** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-01-16** Now in Fiscal Policy
+- **2024-02-02** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/07/24, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
+- **2024-02-07** Favorable by Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-08** Now in Rules
+- **2024-02-16** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/21/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2024-02-21** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2024-02-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
+- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-28** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2024-02-28** In Messages
+- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
+- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
+- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-05** Passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-30** Chapter No. 2024-211
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e53fcf3a-eed0-4084-b273-54e4a1833a58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
+