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type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Health"
description: "Department of Health; Revising the purpose of the departments targeted outreach program for certain pregnant women; requiring the department to encourage high-risk pregnant women of unknown status to be tested for sexually transmissible diseases; removing the Childrens Medical Services office from parties required to coordinate in the development of local emergency management plans for special needs shelters; deleting a requirement that certain nursing program graduates complete a specified preparatory course; defining the terms “doctoral degree from an American Psychological Association accredited program” and “doctoral degree in psychology”, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 768"
citation: "Florida SB 768 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public health", "regulation of professions and occupations", "torts"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-71"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Health Policy", "Rodriguez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-11-02"
last_action: "2022-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4449a18e-ea20-47a2-90ad-39d939bb475a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/768/ByCategory"
source_hash: "324e01527b3d99b408a705d17187e5c681a84ee18f26ebe2d80cc3b5acaccdd3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---
# Florida SB 768 (2022) — Department of Health
Department of Health; Revising the purpose of the departments targeted outreach program for certain pregnant women; requiring the department to encourage high-risk pregnant women of unknown status to be tested for sexually transmissible diseases; removing the Childrens Medical Services office from parties required to coordinate in the development of local emergency management plans for special needs shelters; deleting a requirement that certain nursing program graduates complete a specified preparatory course; defining the terms “doctoral degree from an American Psychological Association accredited program” and “doctoral degree in psychology”, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-71.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 768 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/768/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 768 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/768/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 768 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/768/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 768 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/768/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 768 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/768/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 768 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/768/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **110** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1180** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **390** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **100** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **200** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Health Policy — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-11-02** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-16** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/26/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-26** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-27** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-27** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2022-01-28** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2022-02-11** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/16/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-16** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-16** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/28/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-28** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2022-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
- **2022-03-02** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Amendment(s) adopted (335418, 840068) -SJ 569, 570
- **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-03** In Messages
- **2022-03-07** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/8/2022)
- **2022-03-07** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 523505 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 553945 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 338403 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 114035 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 115557 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 959881 not allowed for consideration
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 816737 adopted
- **2022-03-08** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-10** In returning messages
- **2022-03-10** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (816737)
- **2022-03-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-20** Chapter No. 2022-71, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 566 (Ch. 2022-29)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4449a18e-ea20-47a2-90ad-39d939bb475a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).