republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-382.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing Education Requirements"
description: "Continuing Education Requirements; Requiring, rather than authorizing, a board, or the Department of Business and Professional Regulation when there is no board, to allow by rule that distance learning may be used to satisfy continuing education requirements; revising the requirements that such continuing education must satisfy; requiring a board, or the department when there is no board, to exempt certain individuals from completing their continuing education requirements, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 382"
citation: "Florida SB 382 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-189"
primary_sponsors: ["Governmental Oversight and Accountability", "Hooper", "Regulated Industries", "Rules"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-11-08"
last_action: "2024-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f985d90-be42-401a-9e7b-4bfd3e3ea181"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/382/ByCategory"
source_hash: "15c52f1126b5f43d5abc588aa999ff6b3da0e1e4995bb8944456f517fb3f74aa"
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 382 (2024) — Continuing Education Requirements

Continuing Education Requirements; Requiring, rather than authorizing, a board, or the Department of Business and Professional Regulation when there is no board, to allow by rule that distance learning may be used to satisfy continuing education requirements; revising the requirements that such continuing education must satisfy; requiring a board, or the department when there is no board, to exempt certain individuals from completing their continuing education requirements, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-189.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 382 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/382/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 382 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/382/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 382 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/382/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 382 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/382/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 382 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/382/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (person)
- Hooper — primary (person)
- Regulated Industries — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-08** Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-15** Referred to Regulated Industries; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-04** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 12/13/23, 8:30 am, 401 Senate Building
- **2023-12-13** CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 4 NAYS 0
- **2023-12-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-12-14** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-09** CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
- **2024-01-11** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/16/24, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-01-16** CS/CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-17** CS/CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2024-01-18** Now in Rules
- **2024-02-16** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/21/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-21** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-22** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-22** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2024-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Chapter No. 2024-189

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f985d90-be42-401a-9e7b-4bfd3e3ea181`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).