The Florida Senate

SB 36: Use of Professional Nursing Titles

GENERAL BILL by Sharief ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Osgood ; Davis ; Rouson ; Berman

Use of Professional Nursing Titles; Authorizing persons who hold specified licenses to practice professional nursing or to perform nursing services to use certain titles and abbreviations; requiring doctoral degree holders to specify their profession when using a specified title, etc.

Expand All Collapse All

• 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

  Top of SectionTop of Page

• SB 36, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 9/8/2025 at 1:56 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Health Policy (Pre-Meeting) 1/30/2026 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  H 237 (c1)	Use of Professional Nursing Titles	Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee	Similar	Last Action: 1/29/2026 H Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/4/2026)

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  690594 - Amendment Delete lines 16 - 24 and insert:	Health Policy (Sharief)	1/29/2026 10:32 AM	Replaced by Committee Substitute 2/2/2026	Web Page PDF

  Citations - Statutes (1)

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

  Top of SectionTop of Page