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CS/CS/SB 36: Use of Professional Nursing Titles

GENERAL BILL by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services ; Health Policy ; Sharief ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Osgood ; Davis ; Rouson ; Berman

Use of Professional Nursing Titles; Providing that licensed advanced practice registered nurses who hold specified degrees may use titles and abbreviations associated with those degrees in a specified manner; prohibiting such persons from holding themselves out to patients or prospective patients as a doctor in advertising without also clearly denoting their licensed profession, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 2/26/2026 Senate - On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Health Policy (HP)
  2. Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
  3. Rules (RC)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
9/8/2025 Senate • Filed
10/6/2025 Senate • Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules
1/13/2026 Senate • Introduced
1/28/2026 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/02/26, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
2/2/2026 Senate • CS by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 2
2/3/2026 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2/4/2026 Senate • Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
• CS by Health Policy read 1st time
2/9/2026 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/12/26, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
2/12/2026 Senate • CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 8 NAYS 1
2/16/2026 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• Now in Rules
2/18/2026 Senate • CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
2/26/2026 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed