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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 909: Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 909 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 23, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact. Primary sponsor: Adam Anderson (Republican), Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Health & Human Services Committee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact; Creates Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact; provides purpose & objectives; requires member states to meet certain requirements to join & participate in compact; provides criteria that occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant must satisfy to practice under compact; provides requirements for renewal of equivalent license in member state; authorizes active military member & his or her spouse to be deemed as having home state license; requires member states to report adverse actions taken against license of occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant by other member states; establishes Occupational Therapy Compact Commission; provides for jurisdiction & venue for court proceedings; provides membership, duties, & powers; requires member states to participate in exchange of specified information; authorizes commission to adopt rules & bylaws; provides for development, maintenance, & use of coordinated database & reporting system; requires member states to submit specified information to data system; provides requirements for information in data system; provides rulemaking procedures; provides for state enforcement of compact; provides for termination of compact membership; provides procedures for resolution of certain disputes.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Adam AndersonPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse57
Health Professions & Programs SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Health & Human Services Committee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
  4. Now in Health & Human Services Committee
  5. Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
  6. CS Filed
  7. Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
  8. Reported out of Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
  9. Favorable with CS by Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
  10. Added to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee agenda
  11. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  12. Now in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee

Showing 12 most recent of 16 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source