| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to business and professional |
| 3 | regulation; amending s. 455.271, F.S.; deleting a |
| 4 | provision requiring business and nonmedical |
| 5 | professional licensees of the Department of Business |
| 6 | and Professional Regulation to complete a licensure |
| 7 | cycle on active status before returning to inactive |
| 8 | status; providing an effective date. |
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| 10 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 12 | Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 455.271, Florida |
| 13 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 14 | 455.271 Inactive and delinquent status.- |
| 15 | (2) Each board, or the department when there is no board, |
| 16 | shall permit a licensee to choose, at the time of licensure |
| 17 | renewal, an active or inactive status. However, a licensee who |
| 18 | changes from inactive to active status is not eligible to return |
| 19 | to inactive status until the licensee thereafter completes a |
| 20 | licensure cycle on active status. |
| 21 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012. |