Florida SB 742: Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Bill Text

742 
Nursing Licensure 
2025-12-03T09:54:09Z 
Revising information that the Board of Nursing must publish on its website with respect to approved nursing education programs; providing for provisional licensure of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses; establishing that provisional licensees may practice only under direct supervision of a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse, as applicable, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 742 

 By Senator Rodriguez 

 40-00439-26 2026742__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to nursing licensure; amending s. 
 3 464.019, F.S.; revising information that the Board of 
 4 Nursing must publish on its website with respect to 
 5 approved nursing education programs; revising graduate 
 6 passage rate requirements for approved nursing 
 7 education programs; creating s. 464.0125, F.S.; 
 8 providing for provisional licensure of registered 
 9 nurses and licensed practical nurses; specifying 
 10 requirements for such provisional licensure; providing 
 11 that provisional licenses are not renewable; 
 12 specifying circumstances under which a provisional 
 13 license becomes void; prohibiting applicants for 
 14 provisional licensure from practicing until the 
 15 provisional license is issued; establishing that 
 16 provisional licensees may practice only under direct 
 17 supervision of a registered nurse or licensed 
 18 practical nurse, as applicable; specifying 
 19 requirements for such supervision; requiring the Board 
 20 of Nursing to, by a specified date, submit a formal 
 21 request to National Council of State Boards of Nursing 
 22 to offer the nursing licensing examination and its 
 23 test preparation materials in Spanish by a specified 
 24 date; providing an effective date. 
 25 
 26 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 27 
 28 Section 1. Subsection (4) and paragraph (a) of subsection 
 29 (5) of section 464.019, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 
 30 464.019 Approval of nursing education programs.— 
 31 (4) INTERNET WEBSITE.—The board shall publish the following 
 32 information on its Internet website: 
 33 (a) A list of each accredited program conducted in the 
 34 state and the program’s graduate passage rates for the most 
 35 recent 2 calendar years, which the department shall determine 
 36 through the following sources: 
 37 1. For a program’s accreditation status, the specialized 
 38 accrediting agencies that are nationally recognized by the 
 39 United States Secretary of Education to accredit nursing 
 40 education programs. 
 41 2. For a program’s graduate passage rates, the contract 
 42 testing service of the National Council of State Boards of 
 43 Nursing. 
 44 (b) The following data for each approved program, which 
 45 includes, to the extent applicable: 
 46 1. All documentation provided by the program in its program 
 47 application. 
 48 2. The summary description of the program’s compliance 
 49 submitted under subsection (3). 
 50 3. The program’s accreditation status, including 
 51 identification of the accrediting agency. 
 52 4. The program’s probationary status. 
 53 5. The program’s graduate passage rates for first-, second 
 54 , and third-time test takers for the most recent 2 calendar 
 55 years. 
 56 6. Each program’s retention rates for students tracked from 
 57 program entry to graduation. 
 58 (c) The average passage rates for United States educated, 
 59 first-, second-, and third-time first-time test takers on the 
 60 National Council of State Boards of Nursing Licensing 
 61 Examination for the most recent 2 calendar years, as calculated 
 62 by the contract testing service of the National Council of State 
 63 Boards of Nursing. The average passage rates shall be published 
 64 separately for each type of comparable degree program listed in 
 65 subparagraph (5)(a)1. 
 66 
 67 The information required to be published under this subsection 
 68 shall be made available in a manner that allows interactive 
 69 searches and comparisons of individual programs selected by the 
 70 website user. The board shall update the Internet website at 
 71 least quarterly with the available information. 
 72 (5) ACCOUNTABILITY.— 
 73 (a)1. An approved program must achieve a graduate passage 
 74 rate for first-, second-, and third-time first-time test takers 
 75 which is not more than 10 percentage points lower than the 
 76 average passage rate during the same calendar year for graduates 
 77 of comparable degree programs who are United States educated, 
 78 first-, second-, and third-time first-time test takers on the 
 79 National Council of State Boards of Nursing Licensing 
 80 Examination, as calculated by the contract testing service of 
 81 the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. For purposes of 
 82 this subparagraph, an approved program is comparable to all 
 83 degree programs of the sam