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Bill	Dentistry	Dentistry; Deleting the role of the Board of Dentistry in the administration of the licensure examination for dentists; deleting the requirement for the board to establish an examination fee; revising requirements for licensure as a dentist; deleting a time limitation on the validity of certain licensure examination results; deleting a board-imposed reexamination fee, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 938	Florida SB 938 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-211	Yarborough	2	29	5	2023-12-13	2024-05-30	openstates	ocd-bill/e53fcf3a-eed0-4084-b273-54e4a1833a58	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/938/ByCategory	9568725703b2dee3ff9a7e22b0468080ae8adb8fffec396669cf09d2101b8743	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 938 (2024) — Dentistry

Dentistry; Deleting the role of the Board of Dentistry in the administration of the licensure examination for dentists; deleting the requirement for the board to establish an examination fee; revising requirements for licensure as a dentist; deleting a time limitation on the validity of certain licensure examination results; deleting a board-imposed reexamination fee, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-211.

Version chain

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

1. S 938 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 938 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Yarborough — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-13 Filed filing
• 2024-01-04 Referred to Health Policy; Fiscal Policy; Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-11 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/16/24, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-01-16 Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-16 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2024-02-02 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/07/24, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-07 Favorable by Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-08 Now in Rules
• 2024-02-16 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/21/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-21 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-21 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-26 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
• 2024-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-28 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 (Original Filed Version) filing, 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 Passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-05-21 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-29 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-30 Chapter No. 2024-211

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e53fcf3a-eed0-4084-b273-54e4a1833a58. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).