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type: "Bill"
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title: "Occupational Therapy"
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description: "Occupational Therapy; Revising eligibility requirements for the occupational therapist licensure examination; authorizing certain licensed occupational therapists to use a specified title and the associated initials; prohibiting certain persons from using a specified title and the associated initials; providing criminal penalties, 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 632"
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citation: "Florida SB 632 (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: "2022-30"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bradley", "Health Policy"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2021-10-25"
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last_action: "2022-04-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51dd49c2-68e1-4b99-992a-c8bf74919788"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/632/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "9bbff406102c21a23fa59fa071cebb32eb4e81836e15f3f9975bd2c28de55e18"
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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 632 (2022) — Occupational Therapy
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Occupational Therapy; Revising eligibility requirements for the occupational therapist licensure examination; authorizing certain licensed occupational therapists to use a specified title and the associated initials; prohibiting certain persons from using a specified title and the associated initials; providing criminal penalties, etc.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-30.
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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 632 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/632/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 632 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/632/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 632 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/632/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
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- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bradley — primary (person)
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- Health Policy — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-10-25** Filed `filing`
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- **2021-11-03** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 12/02/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2021-12-02** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
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- **2021-12-02** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2021-12-06** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
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- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2022-01-11** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
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- **2022-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 01/19/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2022-01-19** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
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- **2022-01-19** 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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- **2022-02-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
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- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-03-01** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2022-03-01** In Messages
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- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
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- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
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- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
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- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
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- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
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- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-30
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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/51dd49c2-68e1-4b99-992a-c8bf74919788`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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