Florida Senate - 2025                             CS for SB 1150
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Education Pre-K - 12; and Senator Calatayud
       
       
       
       
       
       581-03090-25                                          20251150c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to school social workers; amending s.
    3         1012.55, F.S.; providing that persons employed as
    4         school social workers are exempt from certain teacher
    5         certification requirements; providing an exception;
    6         providing an effective date.
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    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Present subsection (5) of section 1012.55,
   11  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (6), and a new
   12  subsection (5) is added to that section, to read:
   13         1012.55 Positions for which certificates required.—
   14         (5) A person who is employed as a school social worker
   15  shall be exempt from the educator certification requirements in
   16  s. 1012.56(2)(g) and (h).
   17         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.