---
type: "Bill"
title: "Athletic Trainers"
description: "Athletic Trainers; Revising the definition of the term “athletic trainer”; requiring certain licensees to maintain certification in good standing without lapse as a condition of renewal of their athletic trainer licenses; requiring that an athletic trainer work within a specified scope of practice; requiring the direct supervision of an athletic training student to be in accordance with rules adopted by the Board of Athletic Training, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 226"
citation: "Florida SB 226 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-29"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-09-06"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/236c0e99-6d5b-4990-89b6-12791aaad395"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/226/ByCategory"
source_hash: "96ed9803b973ca5f97607ec73893097e96c4a97ddca8837396a3154f3dc0b4f3"
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 226 (2020) — Athletic Trainers

Athletic Trainers; Revising the definition of the term “athletic trainer”; requiring certain licensees to maintain certification in good standing without lapse as a condition of renewal of their athletic trainer licenses; requiring that an athletic trainer work within a specified scope of practice; requiring the direct supervision of an athletic training student to be in accordance with rules adopted by the Board of Athletic Training, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-29.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 226 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/226/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 226 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/226/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 226 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/226/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harrell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-06** Filed `filing`
- **2019-09-19** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-14** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 10/22/19, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-10-22** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2019-10-22** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-10-24** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2020-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 01/23/20, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-01-23** Favorable by Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-23** Now in Rules
- **2020-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/05/20, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-05** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-02-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/13/20
- **2020-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-19** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-02-26** In Messages
- **2020-03-06** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
- **2020-03-06** Received
- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** CS passed; YEAS 115 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-19** Chapter No. 2020-29

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/236c0e99-6d5b-4990-89b6-12791aaad395`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).