---
type: "Bill"
title: "Deregulation of Professions and Occupations"
description: "Deregulation of Professions and Occupations; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to waive the requirement to pass the Commercial Driver License Skills Tests for certain servicemembers and veterans; specifying that the failure to repay certain student loans is not considered a failure to perform a statutory or legal obligation for which certain disciplinary action can be taken; deleting the requirement that the Florida State Boxing Commission adopt rules relating to a knockdown timekeeper; revising the membership and qualifications of the Florida Building Commission, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1193"
citation: "Florida HB 1193 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["labor", "motor vehicles", "vessels", "regulation of professions and occupations", "and solicitations", "executive branch", "public business", "general assignments"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-160"
primary_sponsors: ["Ingoglia"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e75161e-78df-44fb-a329-739661a515cf"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1193/ByCategory"
source_hash: "1409bb64202464692e32c291f36f74c24db726951b07e0ff6164c63564a750d9"
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 HB 1193 (2020) — Deregulation of Professions and Occupations

Deregulation of Professions and Occupations; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to waive the requirement to pass the Commercial Driver License Skills Tests for certain servicemembers and veterans; specifying that the failure to repay certain student loans is not considered a failure to perform a statutory or legal obligation for which certain disciplinary action can be taken; deleting the requirement that the Florida State Boxing Commission adopt rules relating to a knockdown timekeeper; revising the membership and qualifications of the Florida Building Commission, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-160.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **H 1193 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1193/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1193 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1193/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1193 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1193/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 1193 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1193/BillText/e2/PDF)
5. **H 1193 e3** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1193/BillText/e3/PDF)
6. **H 1193 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1193/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Government Operations & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **88–25** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Business & Professions Subcommittee) — **12–3** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **23–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **103–11** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ingoglia — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-01-09** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-13** Referred to Business and Professions Subcommittee; Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee; Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Business and Professions Subcommittee, 01/21/20, 12:30 pm, Webster Hall
- **2020-01-21** Favorable by Business and Professions Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-21** Now in Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/28/20, 12:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-01-28** Favorable by Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-28** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2020-02-18** On Committee agenda-- Commerce Committee, 02/20/20, 9:00 am, Webster Hall
- **2020-02-20** CS by- Commerce Committee; YEAS 23 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-24** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-24** CS by Commerce Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-25** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/20
- **2020-03-03** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (672911) -HJ 848, 863
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** Amendment(s) adopted (060661)
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 88 NAYS 25 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Commerce and Tourism; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-12** Withdrawn from Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Commerce and Tourism; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-12** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 474
- **2020-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-12** Amendment(s) adopted (380064)
- **2020-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** In returning messages
- **2020-03-12** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (380064)
- **2020-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 103 NAYS 11 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-01** Chapter No. 2020-160

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e75161e-78df-44fb-a329-739661a515cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).