---
type: "Bill"
title: "Private Instructional Personnel"
description: "Private Instructional Personnel; Revises definition of term \"private instructional personnel\" to include registered behavioral technicians employed by certain providers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 795"
citation: "Florida HB 795 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-281"
primary_sponsors: ["Tant"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9fa8854-d2f5-4cbe-bac9-b2bc47b5d47a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/795/ByCategory"
source_hash: "25c1e791bc53b2d792c90ae818aa74d8f6156a6e142935a54dc6fbe09612df12"
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 795 (2023) — Private Instructional Personnel

Private Instructional Personnel; Revises definition of term "private instructional personnel" to include registered behavioral technicians employed by certain providers.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-281.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 795 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/795/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 795 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/795/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Education Quality Subcommittee) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Education & Employment Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tant — primary (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-21** Referred to Education Quality Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-20** Added to Education Quality Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-22** Favorable by Education Quality Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-22** Reported out of Education Quality Subcommittee
- **2023-03-22** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2023-04-06** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2023-04-10** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-11** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2023-04-11** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2023-04-17** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2023-04-19** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-19** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2023-04-19** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2023-04-19** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-02** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-02** Substituted for SB 514
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** In Messages
- **2023-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-22** Chapter No. 2023-281

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9fa8854-d2f5-4cbe-bac9-b2bc47b5d47a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).