---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Care and Early Learning Providers"
description: "Child Care and Early Learning Providers; Exempting public and private preschools from specified special assessments levied by a municipality; revising licensing standards for all licensed child care facilities and minimum standards and training requirements for child care personnel; requiring a county commission to affirm annually certain decisions; expanding the types of providers to be considered when developing and implementing a plan to eliminate duplicative and unnecessary inspections, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 738"
citation: "Florida SB 738 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance", "municipalities", "public health"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-181"
primary_sponsors: ["Burton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ced670a8-b1b3-471d-8056-c0cb14877acb"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/738/ByCategory"
source_hash: "66bc0ad6c4f7bbf7512095d9fa980aa504d736ee2fb07bbd8d06ee7f1809c2b4"
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 738 (2025) — Child Care and Early Learning Providers

Child Care and Early Learning Providers; Exempting public and private preschools from specified special assessments levied by a municipality; revising licensing standards for all licensed child care facilities and minimum standards and training requirements for child care personnel; requiring a county commission to affirm annually certain decisions; expanding the types of providers to be considered when developing and implementing a plan to eliminate duplicative and unnecessary inspections, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-181.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 738 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/738/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 738 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/738/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 738 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/738/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burton — primary (person)
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-25** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-07** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/12/25, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building
- **2025-03-12** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-14** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2025-03-18** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2025-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-26** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-03-28** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-04-02** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/23/25
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In Messages
- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-26** Chapter No. 2025-181

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ced670a8-b1b3-471d-8056-c0cb14877acb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).