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SB0154 • 2026

Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act

Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Harrell
Last action
2026-03-13
Official status
Senate - Died in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Effective date
2026-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text does not provide specific details on how many people will be affected by these changes, leaving this as an unknown.

Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act

This bill revises the list of people who cannot get a license through endorsement under the Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act.

What This Bill Does

  • Revises the list of persons ineligible for a license by endorsement under the act.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who want to get a professional license in Florida by endorsement from another state.

Terms To Know

endorsement
A process where someone with a valid license from one state can get a similar license in another state without going through the full licensing process again.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass the Appropriations Committee in the Senate.
  • It is unclear how many people will be affected by these changes.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-13 Senate

    • Died in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

  2. 2026-01-13 Senate

    • Introduced

  3. 2025-11-18 Senate

    • Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 • Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

  4. 2025-11-10 Senate

    • On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 11/18/25, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building

  5. 2025-10-21 Senate

    • Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules

  6. 2025-10-09 Senate

    • Filed

Official Summary Text

Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act; Revising the list of persons ineligible for a license by endorsement under the act, etc.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
Florida Senate
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2026

SB 154

By
Senator Harrell

31-00503-26 2026154__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the Mobile Opportunity by
3 Interstate Licensure Endorsement Act; amending s.
4 456.0145, F.S.; revising the list of persons
5 ineligible for a license by endorsement under the act;
6 providing an effective date.
7
8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
9
10 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
11 456.0145, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
12 456.0145 Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure
13 Endorsement (MOBILE) Act.—
14 (2) LICENSURE BY ENDORSEMENT.—
15 (c) A person is ineligible for a license under this section
16 if he or she:
17 1. Has a complaint, an allegation, or an investigation
18 pending before a licensing entity in another state, the District
19 of Columbia, or a possession or territory of the United States;
20 2. Has been convicted of or pled nolo contendere to,
21 regardless of adjudication, any felony or misdemeanor related to
22 the practice of a health care profession;
23 3. Has had a health care provider license revoked or
24 suspended by another state, the District of Columbia, or a
25 territory of the United States, or has voluntarily surrendered
26 any such license in lieu of having disciplinary action taken
27 against the license;
or

28 4. Has been reported to the National Practitioner Data
29 Bank, unless the applicant has successfully appealed to have his
30 or her name removed from the data bank. If the reported adverse
31 action was a result of conduct that would not constitute a
32 violation of any law or rule in this state, the board, or the
33 department if there is no board, may:
34 a. Approve the application;
35 b. Approve the application with restrictions on the scope
36 of practice of the licensee;
37 c. Approve the application with placement of the licensee
38 on probation for a period of time and subject to such conditions
39 as the board, or the department if there is no board, may
40 specify, including, but not limited to, requiring the applicant
41 to submit to treatment, attend continuing education courses, or
42 submit to reexamination; or
43 d. Deny the application
; or

44
5.

Is seeking licensure to practice under chapter 466 and

45
h
as not graduated from a dental school or dental hygiene college

46
or school

accredited by the American Dental Association

47
Commission on Dental Accreditation or its successor entity, if

48
any, or any other dental or dental hygiene program accrediting

49
entity recognized by the United States Department of Education
.
50 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.