republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/sb-738.md

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Bill	Child Care and Early Learning Providers	Child Care and Early Learning Providers; Exempting public and private preschools from specified special assessments levied by a municipality; revising licensing standards for all licensed child care facilities and minimum standards and training requirements for child care personnel; requiring a county commission to affirm annually certain decisions; expanding the types of providers to be considered when developing and implementing a plan to eliminate duplicative and unnecessary inspections, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	SB 738	Florida SB 738 (2025)	bill	insurance municipalities public health	enacted	2025-181	Burton	3	31	5	2025-02-13	2025-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/ced670a8-b1b3-471d-8056-c0cb14877acb	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/738/ByCategory	66bc0ad6c4f7bbf7512095d9fa980aa504d736ee2fb07bbd8d06ee7f1809c2b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 738 (2025) — Child Care and Early Learning Providers

Child Care and Early Learning Providers; Exempting public and private preschools from specified special assessments levied by a municipality; revising licensing standards for all licensed child care facilities and minimum standards and training requirements for child care personnel; requiring a county commission to affirm annually certain decisions; expanding the types of providers to be considered when developing and implementing a plan to eliminate duplicative and unnecessary inspections, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-181.

Version chain

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

1. S 738 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 738 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 738 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burton — primary (person)
• Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 Filed filing
• 2025-02-25 Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 Introduced introduction
• 2025-03-07 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/12/25, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building
• 2025-03-12 CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
• 2025-03-14 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-03-14 Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
• 2025-03-18 CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
• 2025-03-21 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-03-26 Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-26 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2025-03-28 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2025-04-02 Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-21 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/23/25
• 2025-04-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-23 CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-23 In Messages
• 2025-04-29 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2025-04-29 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
• 2025-04-29 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2025-04-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-30 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-30 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-30 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-30 CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-30 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-18 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-25 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-26 Chapter No. 2025-181

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ced670a8-b1b3-471d-8056-c0cb14877acb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).