The Florida Senate

CS/CS/HB 765: Child Care and Early Learning Services

GENERAL BILL by Student Academic Success Subcommittee ; Human Services Subcommittee ; McFarland ; Basabe ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) López, J. ; Rizo

Child Care and Early Learning Services; Revises and providing definitions; revises minimum standards for child care facility licensing; removes provisions requiring family day care homes & large family child care homes, respectively, to provide specified information to parents; changes term "family day care" to "family child care"; provides legislative intent relating to large family child care homes; defines "large family child care home"; prohibits residential property insurance policies from providing coverage for liability for claims arising out of, or in connection with, operations of large family child care homes; provides that insurers are under no obligation to defend against lawsuits covering such claims; provides exceptions; prohibits insurers from denying, cancelling, and refusing to renew policy for residential property insurance on basis that policyholders or applicants operate large family child care homes; provides exceptions; reenacting and revising definition of term "DOE direct-support organization"; creates Brighter Futures Program within DOE direct-support organization.

• Bill History
• Related Bills (1)
• Bill Text (3)
• Amendments (3)
• Analyses (2)
• Vote History (0)
• Citations (33)

Bill History

Date	Chamber	Action
12/12/2025	House	• Filed
1/5/2026	House	• Referred to Human Services Subcommittee • Referred to Student Academic Success Subcommittee • Referred to Budget Committee • Referred to Health & Human Services Committee • Now in Human Services Subcommittee
1/13/2026	House	• 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
1/26/2026	House	• Added to Human Services Subcommittee agenda
1/28/2026	House	• Favorable with CS by Human Services Subcommittee
1/30/2026	House	• Reported out of Human Services Subcommittee • Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) • CS Filed • 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
2/2/2026	House	• Referred to Student Academic Success Subcommittee • Referred to Budget Committee • Referred to Health & Human Services Committee • Now in Student Academic Success Subcommittee
2/3/2026	House	• Added to Student Academic Success Subcommittee agenda
2/5/2026	House	• Favorable with CS by Student Academic Success Subcommittee
2/6/2026	House	• Reported out of Student Academic Success Subcommittee • Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) • CS Filed
2/9/2026	House	• 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)

Related Bills

Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
S 1690 (c1)	Child Care and Early Learning Services	Calatayud	Similar	Last Action: 2/5/2026 S On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 02/10/26, 3:00 pm, 412 Knott Building

Bill Text

Version	Posted	Format
H 765 Filed	12/12/2025 4:25 PM	PDF
H 765 c1	1/30/2026 11:10 AM	PDF
H 765 c2	2/6/2026 1:41 PM	PDF

Committee Amendments

H 765 Filed

Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
932349 - Strike All Amendment Remove everything after the enacting clause and insert:	McFarland	1/27/2026 4:06 PM	Adopted without Objection 1/28/2026	PDF

H 765 c1

Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
279969 - Amendment Remove lines 76-169 and insert:	McFarland	2/4/2026 7:03 PM	Adopted 2/5/2026	PDF
232443 - Amendment Remove lines 562-682 and insert:	McFarland	2/4/2026 11:41 AM	Adopted 2/5/2026	PDF

Floor Amendments

No Floor Amendments Available

Bill Analyses

Type	Analysis	Author	Posted	Format
Bill Analysis	H 765	Human Services Subcommittee (Post-Meeting)	1/30/2026 10:08 AM	PDF
Bill Analysis	H 765	Student Academic Success Subcommittee (Post-Meeting)	2/6/2026 2:21 PM	PDF

Vote History - Committee

No Committee Vote History Available

Vote History - Floor

No Vote History Available

Citations - Statutes (33)

Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
39.101	Central abuse hotline.	Page 29 (pdf)
39.202	Confidentiality of reports and records in cases of child abuse or neglect; exception.	Page 29 (pdf)
125.0109	Family day care homes; local zoning regulation.	Page 31 (pdf)
166.0445	Family day care homes; local zoning regulation.	Page 31 (pdf)
212.08	Sales, rental, use, consumption, distribution, and storage tax; specified exemptions.	Page 31 (pdf)
402.302	Definitions.	Page 3 (pdf)
402.305	Licensing standards; child care facilities.	Page 7 (pdf)
402.306	Designation of licensing agency; dissemination by the department and local licensing agency of information on child care.	Page 33 (pdf)
402.309	Provisional license or registration.	Page 34 (pdf)
402.310	Disciplinary actions; hearings upon denial, suspension, or revocation of license or registration; administrative fines.	Page 35 (pdf)
402.3115	Elimination of duplicative and unnecessary inspections; abbreviated inspections.	Page 36 (pdf)
402.312	License required; injunctive relief.	Page 37 (pdf)
402.313	Family day care homes.	Page 9 (pdf)
402.3131	Large family child care homes.	Page 17 (pdf)
402.315	Funding; license fees.	Page 38 (pdf)
402.316	Exemptions.	Page 39 (pdf)
402.318	Advertisement.	Page 40 (pdf)
402.319	Penalties.	Page 40 (pdf)
409.988	Community-based care lead agency duties; general provisions.	Page 42 (pdf)
411.203	Continuum of comprehensive services.	Page 43 (pdf)
627.70161	Family day care insurance.	Page 17 (pdf)
1001.24	Direct-support organization; use of property; board of directors; audit.	Page 21 (pdf)
1002.55	School-year prekindergarten program delivered by private prekindergarten providers.	Page 44 (pdf)
1002.82	Department of Education; powers and duties.	Page 45 (pdf)
1002.821		Page 23 (pdf)
1002.83	Early learning coalitions.	Page 45 (pdf)
1002.84	Early learning coalitions; school readiness powers and duties.	Page 46 (pdf)
1002.88	School readiness program provider standards; eligibility to deliver the school readiness program.	Page 46 (pdf)
1002.895	Market rate schedule.	Page 48 (pdf)
1002.92	Child care and early childhood resource and referral.	Page 48 (pdf)
1002.93	School readiness program transportation services.	Page 51 (pdf)
1002.945	Gold Seal Quality Care Program.	Page 51 (pdf)
1002.95	Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (TEACH) Scholarship Program.	Page 28 (pdf)

Citations - Constitution (0)

No Constitutional citations.

Citations - Chapter Law (0)

No Chapter Law citations.