SB 472 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Education in Correctional Facilities for Professional Licensure

Summary
Education in Correctional Facilities for Professional Licensure; Requiring the Correctional Education Program to design and implement a plan, in coordination with the boards of professions regulated by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, or the department when there is no board, for inmates who take certain classes to receive credit towards licensure requirements, etc.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
House Passage
Apr 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Mar 4, 2025 Signed May 22, 2025
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What changed between versions

S 472 c1 S 472 er · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill text transitioned from a committee version (c1) to an enrolled version (er), with no substantive policy changes to the legislation itself. The core requirement remains the same: the Correctional Education Program must create a plan to give inmates credit toward professional licensure for classes they complete. The enrolled version includes standard legislative formatting and metadata updates.
TECHNICAL

Removed committee attribution and metadata headers; added enrolled status and final version identifiers

Standardized text formatting from multi-line paragraphs to single-line numbered sections

Updated bill identifier from 2025472c1 to 2025472er to reflect enrolled status

Floor votes · Senate Apr 3, 2025 · House Apr 29, 2025

How they voted

370
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 38
Apr 3, 2025
D Democratic10
10 Yea
100% Yea
I Independent1
1 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican27
26 Yea 1
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
32
Key actions
10
Committee
9
May 22, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor
legislature
Apr 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0
lower
Apr 28, 2025
Committee
Bill referred to House Calendar
lower
Apr 3, 2025
Upper · Passed
CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
upper
Mar 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Mar 24, 2025
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/27/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
upper
Mar 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/18/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
upper
Mar 5, 2025
Upper · Passed
Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
upper
Mar 4, 2025
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Mar 4, 2025
Upper · Passed
Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/04/25, 2:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
upper
Feb 20, 2025
Committee
Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Keith Truenow
Keith Truenow
RRepublican
FL
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