Florida Statute 455.212 - 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. 455.212

455.212 Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements.—Any board, or the department when there is no board, that requires student completion of a specific number of clock hours of classroom instruction for initial licensure purposes shall establish the minimal competencies that such students must demonstrate in order to be licensed. The demonstration of such competencies may be substituted for specific classroom clock-hour requirements established in statute or rule which are related to instructional programs for licensure purposes. Student demonstration of the established minimum competencies shall be certified by the educational institution. The provisions of this section shall not apply to boards for which federal licensure standards are more restrictive or stringent than the standards prescribed in statute.

History.—s. 63, ch. 92-136; s. 30, ch. 92-321.

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Cases Citing Statute 455.212

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Koger v. Department of Professional Regulation

647 So. 2d 312, 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 12277, 1994 WL 700109

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 16, 1994 | Docket: 64752945

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also agree with the Board’s conclusion that section 455.212, Florida Statutes (Supp.1992), does not authorize