---
type: "Bill"
title: "Structural Engineering Recognition Program for Professional Engineers"
description: "Structural Engineering Recognition Program for Professional Engineers; Establishes Structural Engineering Recognition Program for Professional Engineers; requires Board of Professional Engineers to recognize licensed professional engineer who has successfully passed specified examination; provides requirements for application & recognition; prohibits fee for such application or for recognition; authorizes professional engineer recognized by program to identify such recognition in her or his professional practice & marketing & advertising materials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 375"
citation: "Florida HB 375 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-81"
primary_sponsors: ["Silvers", "Toledo"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-10-20"
last_action: "2022-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a806d1d-f755-4199-b88b-4d41f6de904f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/375/ByCategory"
source_hash: "cd82bb708326d38f0d43e4136e6f8827f1a2191ce8c62ac737e2c9fb8b286b1b"
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 375 (2022) — Structural Engineering Recognition Program for Professional Engineers

Structural Engineering Recognition Program for Professional Engineers; Establishes Structural Engineering Recognition Program for Professional Engineers; requires Board of Professional Engineers to recognize licensed professional engineer who has successfully passed specified examination; provides requirements for application & recognition; prohibits fee for such application or for recognition; authorizes professional engineer recognized by program to identify such recognition in her or his professional practice & marketing & advertising materials.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-81.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 375 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/375/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 375 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/375/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 375 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/375/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Regulatory Reform Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Commerce Committee) — **21–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Regulatory Reform Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Silvers — primary (person)
- Toledo — primary (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-20** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-05** Referred to Regulatory Reform Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-05** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-05** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-05** Now in Regulatory Reform Subcommittee
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-02-04** PCS added to Regulatory Reform Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-02-08** Favorable with CS by Regulatory Reform Subcommittee
- **2022-02-08** Reported out of Regulatory Reform Subcommittee
- **2022-02-08** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-02-08** CS Filed
- **2022-02-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-02-10** Original reference removed: State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-02-10** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2022-02-21** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2022-02-23** Favorable by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-24** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2022-02-24** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-04** Received
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for SB 940
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-04-27** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-28** Chapter No. 2022-81

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a806d1d-f755-4199-b88b-4d41f6de904f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).