---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health Professional Licensure"
description: "Mental Health Professional Licensure; Revising licensure requirements for clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 566"
citation: "Florida SB 566 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-29"
primary_sponsors: ["Gruters", "Health Policy"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-10-20"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85ec5141-bb84-45f6-83ae-56385b0f78a1"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/566/ByCategory"
source_hash: "79bf704e749a067adffbb522554d71e57a59510af2bae5cd30521d0c71fdfd9c"
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 566 (2022) — Mental Health Professional Licensure

Mental Health Professional Licensure; Revising licensure requirements for clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-29.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 566 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/566/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 566 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/566/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 566 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/566/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gruters — primary (person)
- Health Policy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-20** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-03** Referred to Health Policy; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 12/02/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-12-02** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2021-12-02** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-12-06** Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- **2022-01-06** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/11/22, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-11** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-11** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2022-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-27** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-01-31** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/03/22
- **2022-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-03** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-03** In Messages
- **2022-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2022)
- **2022-03-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 343
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-29, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 768 (Ch. 2022-71)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85ec5141-bb84-45f6-83ae-56385b0f78a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).