The Florida Senate

HB 237: Use of Professional Nursing Titles

GENERAL BILL by Salzman

Use of Professional Nursing Titles; Authorizes persons who hold specified licenses to practice professional nursing or to perform nursing services to use certain titles & abbreviations; requires doctoral degree holders to specify their profession when using specified title.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  10/21/2025	House	• Filed
  10/28/2025	House	• Referred to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee • Referred to Health & Human Services Committee • Now in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
  1/12/2026	House	• Added to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee agenda
  1/13/2026	House	• 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)

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• HB 237, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 10/21/2025 at 11:10 AM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee (Post-Meeting) 1/12/2026 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 36	Use of Professional Nursing Titles	Sharief	Identical	Last Action: 1/13/2026 S Introduced

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  399319 - Strike All Amendment Remove everything after the enacting clause and insert:	Salzman	1/13/2026 5:07 PM		PDF

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  464.015	Titles and abbreviations; restrictions; penalty.	Page 1 (pdf)

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