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Bill Keep Our Graduates Working Act Keep Our Graduates Working Act; Prohibits state authority from denying license, refusing to renew license, or suspending or revoking license on basis of delinquency or default in payment of his or her student loan; provides exception to requirement that certain entities prohibit candidate from being examined for or issued, or having renewed license, certificate, or registration to practice health care profession if he or she is listed on specified federal list of excluded individuals & entities; repeals provisions relating to health care practitioners in default on student loan or scholarship obligations. us/states/fl Florida Legislature 2020 HB 115 Florida HB 115 (2020)
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Florida HB 115 (2020) — Keep Our Graduates Working Act

Keep Our Graduates Working Act; Prohibits state authority from denying license, refusing to renew license, or suspending or revoking license on basis of delinquency or default in payment of his or her student loan; provides exception to requirement that certain entities prohibit candidate from being examined for or issued, or having renewed license, certificate, or registration to practice health care profession if he or she is listed on specified federal list of excluded individuals & entities; repeals provisions relating to health care practitioners in default on student loan or scholarship obligations.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-125.

Version chain

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

  1. H 115 Filed (filed) — source
  2. H 115 c1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. H 115 c2 (committee substitute) — source
  4. H 115 c3 (committee substitute) — source
  5. H 115 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Favorable With Committee Substitute (Business & Professions Subcommittee) — 120 (pass) · lower
  • Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Third Reading — 351 (pass) · upper
  • Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health Quality Subcommittee) — 110 (pass) · lower
  • Passage, Third Reading — 1180 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Health Quality Subcommittee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-09-04 Filed filing
  • 2019-09-23 Referred to Business and Professions Subcommittee; Health Quality Subcommittee; Commerce Committee referral-committee
  • 2019-10-30 On Committee agenda-- Business and Professions Subcommittee, 11/06/19, 1:00 pm, Webster Hall
  • 2019-11-06 CS by Business and Professions Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
  • 2019-11-07 Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
  • 2019-11-12 Now in Health Quality Subcommittee
  • 2019-12-04 On Committee agenda-- Health Quality Subcommittee, 12/11/19, 8:30 am, Webster Hall
  • 2019-12-11 CS/CS by Health Quality Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
  • 2019-12-12 Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
  • 2019-12-16 Now in Commerce Committee
  • 2020-01-14 On Committee agenda-- Commerce Committee, 01/16/20, 2:30 pm, Webster Hall
  • 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
  • 2020-01-14 CS by Business and Professions Subcommittee read 1st time
  • 2020-01-14 CS/CS by Health Quality Subcommittee read 1st time
  • 2020-01-16 CS/CS/CS by- Commerce Committee; YEAS 22 NAYS 0
  • 2020-01-17 Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
  • 2020-01-21 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-01-21 CS/CS/CS by Commerce Committee read 1st time
  • 2020-01-23 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/20
  • 2020-01-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2020-01-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2020-01-29 CS passed; YEAS 118 NAYS 0 passage
  • 2020-02-05 In Messages
  • 2020-02-05 Referred to Education; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Rules referral-committee
  • 2020-02-06 Withdrawn from Education; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Rules withdrawal
  • 2020-02-06 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  • 2020-02-06 Substituted for CS/SB 356
  • 2020-02-06 Received
  • 2020-02-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2020-02-06 Placed on 3rd reading
  • 2020-02-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2020-02-12 CS passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 1 passage
  • 2020-02-13 Ordered enrolled
  • 2020-06-17 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
  • 2020-06-29 Approved by Governor executive-signature
  • 2020-06-30 Chapter No. 2020-125

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fd866c87-ab94-4589-8cc8-0f67e17d1e89. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).