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type: "Bill"
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title: "Child Care and Early Learning Providers"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 738"
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citation: "Florida SB 738 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["insurance", "municipalities", "public health"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2025-181"
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primary_sponsors: ["Burton"]
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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: "2025-02-13"
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last_action: "2025-06-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ced670a8-b1b3-471d-8056-c0cb14877acb"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/738/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "66bc0ad6c4f7bbf7512095d9fa980aa504d736ee2fb07bbd8d06ee7f1809c2b4"
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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 738 (2025) — Child Care and Early Learning Providers
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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.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-181.
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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 738 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/738/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 738 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/738/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 738 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/738/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Burton — primary (person)
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- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (organization)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-13** Filed `filing`
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- **2025-02-25** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2025-03-07** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/12/25, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building
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- **2025-03-12** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
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- **2025-03-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2025-03-14** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
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- **2025-03-18** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
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- **2025-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
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- **2025-03-26** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-26** Now in Fiscal Policy
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- **2025-03-28** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
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- **2025-04-02** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2025-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/23/25
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- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-04-23** In Messages
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- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
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- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
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- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-30** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-06-26** Chapter No. 2025-181
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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/ced670a8-b1b3-471d-8056-c0cb14877acb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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