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type: "Bill"
title: "School Social Workers"
description: "School Social Workers; Provides that persons employed as school social workers are exempt from specified educator certification requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 809"
citation: "Florida HB 809 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-62"
primary_sponsors: ["Hunschofsky", "Lopez, V."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab93197d-8803-4bcb-8087-9e4ccc2c9f61"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/809/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8b4ae0c27a370c093291be43f3138c85ce2b8976916b4e863464ed2492f5be5f"
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 HB 809 (2025) — School Social Workers
School Social Workers; Provides that persons employed as school social workers are exempt from specified educator certification requirements.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-62.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 809 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/809/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 809 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/809/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **1090** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hunschofsky — primary (person)
- Lopez, V. — primary (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Melo — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Education Administration Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Now in Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-17** Added to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-19** Favorable by Careers & Workforce Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Reported out of Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
- **2025-03-19** Now in Education Administration Subcommittee
- **2025-03-31** Added to Education Administration Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-04-02** Favorable by Education Administration Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Reported out of Education Administration Subcommittee
- **2025-04-02** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-04** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2025-04-08** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-08** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-24** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-24** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-30** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-30** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-30** Substituted for CS/SB 1150
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In Messages
- **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-22** Chapter No. 2025-62
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab93197d-8803-4bcb-8087-9e4ccc2c9f61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).