FL HB 765

died on adjournment

Child Care and Early Learning Services

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Child Care and Early Learning Services ; Revises minimum standards for child care facility licensing; removes provisions requiring family day care homes & large family child care homes to provide specified information to parents; prohibits residential property insurance policies from providing coverage for liability for claims arising out of, or in connection with, operations of large family child care homes; prohibits insurers from denying, cancelling, & refusing to renew policy for residential property insurance on basis that policyholders or applicants operate large family child care homes; revises requirements for certain prekindergarten curricula; establishes review & approval process for such curricula; creates Florida Child Care Fund; requires DOE direct-support organization to administer fund; requires that funds from state sources & interest earnings be accounted separately; provides for use of funds; provides for establishment & administration of Center for Early Childhood Professional Recognition under specified circumstance.

Introduced: —
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-03-11 — Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/CS/SB 1690
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2025-12-12
Filed
filing
2026-01-05
Referred to Human Services Subcommittee
referral-committee
2026-01-05
Referred to Student Academic Success Subcommittee
referral-committee
2026-01-05
Referred to Budget Committee
referral-committee
2026-01-05
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
referral-committee
2026-01-05
Now in Human Services Subcommittee
2026-01-13
1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
filing,reading-1
2026-01-26
Added to Human Services Subcommittee agenda
2026-01-28
Favorable with CS by Human Services Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable
2026-01-30
Reported out of Human Services Subcommittee
2026-01-30
Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral
2026-01-30
CS Filed
filing
2026-01-30
1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
reading-1
2026-02-02
Referred to Student Academic Success Subcommittee
referral-committee
2026-02-02
Referred to Budget Committee
referral-committee
2026-02-02
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
referral-committee
2026-02-02
Now in Student Academic Success Subcommittee
2026-02-03
Added to Student Academic Success Subcommittee agenda
2026-02-05
Favorable with CS by Student Academic Success Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-06
Reported out of Student Academic Success Subcommittee
2026-02-06
Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral
2026-02-06
CS Filed
filing
2026-02-09
1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
reading-1
2026-02-09
Referred to Budget Committee
referral-committee
2026-02-09
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
referral-committee
2026-02-09
Now in Budget Committee
2026-02-12
Added to Budget Committee agenda
2026-02-16
Favorable with CS by Budget Committee
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-17
Reported out of Budget Committee
2026-02-17
Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral
2026-02-17
CS Filed
filing
2026-02-18
1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3)
reading-1
2026-02-18
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
referral-committee
2026-02-18
Now in Health & Human Services Committee
2026-02-20
Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
2026-02-24
Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-25
Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
2026-02-25
Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral
2026-02-25
CS Filed
filing
2026-02-25
Bill referred to House Calendar
2026-02-25
1st Reading (Committee Substitute 4)
reading-1
2026-02-26
Added to Second Reading Calendar
2026-03-02
Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026)
2026-03-05
Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
2026-03-05
Added to Second Reading Calendar
2026-03-11
Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/CS/SB 1690
deferral

Versions

H 765 c4Compare
H 765 c3Compare
H 765 c2Compare
H 765 c1Compare
H 765 FiledCompare
(document, no version)Compare

Documents

application/pdf
application/pdf
application/pdf
application/pdf
application/pdf
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf(no extracted text yet)

Votes

Favorable With Committee Substitute (Human Services Subcommittee)
2026-01-28 · pass · 15-0
Favorable With Committee Substitute (Student Academic Success Subcommittee)
2026-02-05 · pass · 13-1
Favorable With Committee Substitute (Budget Committee)
2026-02-16 · pass · 28-0
Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee)
2026-02-24 · pass · 21-0

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/765/ByCategory

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:19:20.677932Z

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=FL&identifier=HB 765. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
Committee referrals are not yet captured.
Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.