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type: "Bill"
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title: "Military Occupational Licensure"
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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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2022"
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identifier: "SB 562"
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citation: "Florida SB 562 (2022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2022-185"
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primary_sponsors: ["Cruz"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 32
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2021-10-19"
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last_action: "2022-06-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79f0a100-df5f-4888-93ff-3d3554a985a6"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/562/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "59e6477776d436f0b2bdd2bbaa583b2319985120658df7fd89c13b69e1da9f4e"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida SB 562 (2022) — Military Occupational Licensure
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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.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-185.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **S 562 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/562/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 562 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/562/BillText/e1/HTML)
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3. **S 562 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/562/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Cruz — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-10-19** Filed `filing`
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- **2021-11-03** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Regulated Industries; Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-06** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 01/11/22, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
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- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2022-01-11** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-01-12** Now in Regulated Industries
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- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 01/25/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
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- **2022-01-25** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-01-26** Now in Appropriations
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- **2022-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/09/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2022-02-09** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-02-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2022-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/23/22
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- **2022-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-02-23** Amendment(s) adopted (774986)
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- **2022-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-02-23** Passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2022-02-23** Immediately certified
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- **2022-02-23** In Messages
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- **2022-02-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2022-02-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
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- **2022-02-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
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- **2022-03-03** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 559
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- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
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- **2022-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-03-04** Passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
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- **2022-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
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- **2022-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2022-06-10** Chapter No. 2022-185
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## Source
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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).
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