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type: "Bill"
title: "Military Occupational Licensure"
description: "Military Occupational Licensure; Requiring the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to expedite professional license applications submitted by spouses of active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States; requiring the department to issue certain licenses within a specified timeframe; requiring the Department of Health and certain boards to issue a professional license to spouses of active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States if certain requirements are met, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 562"
citation: "Florida SB 562 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-185"
primary_sponsors: ["Cruz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-10-19"
last_action: "2022-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79f0a100-df5f-4888-93ff-3d3554a985a6"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/562/ByCategory"
source_hash: "59e6477776d436f0b2bdd2bbaa583b2319985120658df7fd89c13b69e1da9f4e"
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 562 (2022) — Military Occupational Licensure
Military Occupational Licensure; Requiring the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to expedite professional license applications submitted by spouses of active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States; requiring the department to issue certain licenses within a specified timeframe; requiring the Department of Health and certain boards to issue a professional license to spouses of active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States if certain requirements are met, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-185.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 562 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/562/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 562 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/562/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 562 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/562/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **70** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **190** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **90** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1120** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Cruz — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-10-19** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-03** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Regulated Industries; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-06** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 01/11/22, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-12** Now in Regulated Industries
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 01/25/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-25** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-26** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/09/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-09** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/23/22
- **2022-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-23** Amendment(s) adopted (774986)
- **2022-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** Passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-23** 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 559
- **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** Passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-10** Chapter No. 2022-185
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79f0a100-df5f-4888-93ff-3d3554a985a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).