Following redistricting in 2012, Beshears opted to run for the Florida House of Representatives, and defeated Mike Williams, former Florida Representative Jamey Westbrook, and Don Curtis in the Republican primary election, winning with 38% of the vote.

In the general election, Beshears faced Robert Hill, the Democratic nominee and the former Liberty County Administrator, Clerk of Court, and superintendent.

During the 2014 session of the Florida Legislature, Beshears sponsored a bill in the Florida Legislature that made application to Congress to convene an Article V Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution for the limited purpose of proposing a Single Subject Amendment.

On December 11, 2018, then-Governor Elect Ron DeSantis announced he would appoint Beshears as Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation in his new administration.

[2] Beshears resigned from the Florida House of Representatives and took office as DBPR secretary on January 11, 2019.