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| Bill | Educator Preparation and Certification | Educator Preparation and Certification; Authorizing an educator preparation institute to allow certain program participants to enroll in introductory coursework; revising the criteria for the award of a temporary educator certification to include certain persons with expired professional certificates; requiring that subject area coverages and endorsements for a certificateholder be reinstated with the certificateholder's professional certificate; revising requirements for reinstatement of a professional certificate; providing that certain requirements for reinstatement of a professional certificate may not be satisfied using specific inservice points; requiring the Florida Center for Teaching Excellence to collaborate with the David C. Anchin Center for the Advancement of Teaching for specified purposes; requiring, rather than authorizing, the center to submit a specified professional learning system for approval by the department; requiring the center to allow certain certified educators to use such professional learning system for specified purposes at no cost to the educator; requiring the center to submit inservice points for such educators to the department; requiring the center to provide information on certain school district professional learning systems to certain certified educators, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2026 | HB 561 | Florida HB 561 (2026) |
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enacted | 2026-106 |
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3 | 41 | 5 | 2025-12-01 | 2026-05-26 | openstates | ocd-bill/d6064efe-8287-4982-b197-e19a70ef3f15 | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/561/ByCategory | 5deb3753770f6194ff5a93d24792ff7481258202e429813a6c718bec4cdae990 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 561 (2026) — Educator Preparation and Certification
Educator Preparation and Certification; Authorizing an educator preparation institute to allow certain program participants to enroll in introductory coursework; revising the criteria for the award of a temporary educator certification to include certain persons with expired professional certificates; requiring that subject area coverages and endorsements for a certificateholder be reinstated with the certificateholder's professional certificate; revising requirements for reinstatement of a professional certificate; providing that certain requirements for reinstatement of a professional certificate may not be satisfied using specific inservice points; requiring the Florida Center for Teaching Excellence to collaborate with the David C. Anchin Center for the Advancement of Teaching for specified purposes; requiring, rather than authorizing, the center to submit a specified professional learning system for approval by the department; requiring the center to allow certain certified educators to use such professional learning system for specified purposes at no cost to the educator; requiring the center to submit inservice points for such educators to the department; requiring the center to provide information on certain school district professional learning systems to certain certified educators, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-106.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Favorable (Education & Employment Committee) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Careers & Workforce Subcommittee) — 15–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable (PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee) — 13–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Education & Employment Committee — primary (organization)
- Gerwig — primary (person)
- Daniels — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-12-01 Filed
filing - 2025-12-12 Referred to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-12-12 Referred to PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-12-12 Referred to Education & Employment Committee
referral-committee - 2025-12-12 Now in Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
- 2026-01-12 Added to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee agenda
- 2026-01-13 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
filing, reading-1 - 2026-01-14 Favorable by Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-01-14 Reported out of Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
- 2026-01-14 Now in PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee
- 2026-02-02 Added to PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee agenda
- 2026-02-04 Favorable by PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-02-04 Reported out of PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee
- 2026-02-04 Now in Education & Employment Committee
- 2026-02-06 PCS added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- 2026-02-10 Favorable with CS by Education & Employment Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-02-10 Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- 2026-02-10 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2026-02-10 CS Filed
filing - 2026-02-10 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
reading-1 - 2026-02-11 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2026-02-11 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2026-02-19 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/25/2026)
- 2026-02-25 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-02-25 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2026-02-25 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-02-25 CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0
passage - 2026-02-25 In Messages
- 2026-02-26 Referred to Rules
referral-committee - 2026-02-26 Received
enrolled - 2026-03-05 Withdrawn from Rules
withdrawal - 2026-03-05 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2026-03-05 Substituted for SB 1718
- 2026-03-05 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-03-05 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-03-05 CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
passage - 2026-03-05 In Messages
- 2026-03-05 Ordered enrolled
enrolled - 2026-05-21 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2026-05-22 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2026-05-26 Chapter No. 2026-106
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d6064efe-8287-4982-b197-e19a70ef3f15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).