---
type: "Bill"
title: "Licensure Examinations for Dental Practitioners"
description: "Licensure Examinations for Dental Practitioners; Revising licensure examination requirements for dentists to require applicants to demonstrate certain clinical skills on a manikin rather than a live patient; revising requirements for regional licensure examinations offered by dental schools to dental students; revising licensure examination requirements for dental hygienists to require applicants to demonstrate certain clinical skills on a manikin rather than a live patient; deleting a requirement that applicants for dental practitioner licensure examinations maintain medical malpractice insurance to cover any incident of harm to a patient during the clinical examination, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 926"
citation: "Florida SB 926 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-32"
primary_sponsors: ["Albritton", "Banking and Insurance", "Health Policy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-11-16"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6d24603-f5f7-4c5a-92ea-d2997d9ad5d6"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/926/ByCategory"
source_hash: "4bbae881870cbe9306aed6e66c07498d8ed638f73f1a0903060b82cb884c00b6"
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 926 (2022) — Licensure Examinations for Dental Practitioners

Licensure Examinations for Dental Practitioners; Revising licensure examination requirements for dentists to require applicants to demonstrate certain clinical skills on a manikin rather than a live patient; revising requirements for regional licensure examinations offered by dental schools to dental students; revising licensure examination requirements for dental hygienists to require applicants to demonstrate certain clinical skills on a manikin rather than a live patient; deleting a requirement that applicants for dental practitioner licensure examinations maintain medical malpractice insurance to cover any incident of harm to a patient during the clinical examination, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-32.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 926 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/926/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 926 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/926/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 926 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/926/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 926 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/926/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 926 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/926/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Albritton — primary (person)
- Banking and Insurance — primary (person)
- Health Policy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-16** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-30** Referred to Health Policy; Banking and Insurance; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/13/22, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-18** Now in Banking and Insurance
- **2022-01-18** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 01/25/22, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-25** CS/CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-27** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-28** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-02** CS/CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
- **2022-02-03** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-07** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/10/22
- **2022-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Amendment(s) adopted (144414)
- **2022-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-10** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-10** In Messages
- **2022-02-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
- **2022-02-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-03-03** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 517
- **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 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** 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. 2022-32

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6d24603-f5f7-4c5a-92ea-d2997d9ad5d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).