Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 900
       
       
        
       By Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       40-00593-25                                            2025900__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to fees; amending s. 474.208, F.S.;
    3         requiring any person desiring to be licensed as a
    4         veterinary technician or veterinary technologist to
    5         remit an examination fee set by the board; requiring
    6         veterinary technicians or veterinary technologists who
    7         have certain good standing and credentials desiring to
    8         be licensed as such to remit a fee set by the board;
    9         providing a contingent effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) and paragraph
   14  (a) of subsection (3) of section 474.208, Florida Statutes, as
   15  created by SB 898, 2025 Regular Session, are amended to read:
   16         474.208 Veterinary technicians and veterinary
   17  technologists.—
   18         (2) Any person desiring to be licensed as a veterinary
   19  technician or veterinary technologist in this state must apply
   20  to the department to take a licensure examination. The
   21  department shall license each applicant who the board verifies
   22  has done all of the following:
   23         (a) Completed the application form and remitted an
   24  examination fee set by the board.
   25         (3) Beginning July 1, 2025, all veterinary technicians and
   26  veterinary technologists in good standing with the Florida
   27  Veterinary Technician Association or the Florida Veterinary
   28  Medical Association and who graduated from a college program of
   29  veterinary technology accredited by the AVMA CVTEA before 2024
   30  may apply for licensure. The department shall license each
   31  veterinary technician and veterinary technologist who the board
   32  verifies has done all of the following:
   33         (a) Completed the application for licensure and remitted a
   34  fee set by the board.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect on the same date that
   36  SB 898 or similar legislation takes effect, if such legislation
   37  is adopted in the same legislative session or an extension
   38  thereof and becomes a law.