Florida Statute 455.11 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 455
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION: GENERAL PROVISIONS

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F.S. 455.11

455.11 Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation.—

(1) It is the declared purpose of this section to encourage the use of foreign-speaking Florida residents duly qualified to become actively qualified in their professions so that all Florida citizens may receive better services.

(2) Any person who has successfully completed, or is currently enrolled in, an approved course of study created pursuant to chapters 74-105 and 75-177, Laws of Florida, shall be deemed qualified for examination and reexaminations for a professional or occupational license which shall be administered in the English language unless 15 or more such applicants request that said reexamination be administered in their native language. In the event that such reexamination is administered in a foreign language, the full cost to the board of preparing and administering same shall be borne by said applicants.

(3) Each board within the department shall adopt and implement programs designed to qualify for examination all persons who were resident nationals of the Republic of Cuba and who, on July 1, 1977, were residents of this state.

History.—ss. 1, 3, ch. 77-255; s. 5, ch. 79-36; s. 194, ch. 79-400; s. 5, ch. 92-149; s. 61, ch. 94-218.

Note.—Former s. 455.016.

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Cases Citing Statute 455.11

Total Results: 3

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: May 30, 1980 | Docket: 3255310

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July 1, 1977, were residents of this state. [Section 455.11, F. S.] You state that several problems

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Mar 18, 1975 | Docket: 3255533

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or not such acts have, in fact, occurred. Section 455.011, F.S., provides in pertinent part that: .

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Feb 11, 1975 | Docket: 3258969

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recognizes proper oral and practical examinations. Section 455.011, F.S., enacted by Ch. 61-47, Laws of Florida