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type: "Bill"
title: "Protections of Medical Conscience"
description: "Protections of Medical Conscience; Providing that health care providers and health care payors have the right to opt out of participation in or payment for certain health care services on the basis of conscience-based objections; providing requirements for a health care provider’s notice and documentation of such objection; providing whistle-blower protections for health care providers and health care payors that take certain actions or disclose certain information relating to the reporting of certain violations; prohibiting boards, or the Department of Health if there is no board, from taking disciplinary action against or denying a license to an individual based solely on specified conduct, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1580"
citation: "Florida SB 1580 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-57"
primary_sponsors: ["Rules", "Trumbull"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-03"
last_action: "2023-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/596f6a96-92a4-411d-92ba-7b1ad0baaac0"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1580/ByCategory"
source_hash: "1b64353dd11aa9d65ed53389e58237d464f5c07ccfed866e7ae69228a41e4677"
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 1580 (2023) — Protections of Medical Conscience
Protections of Medical Conscience; Providing that health care providers and health care payors have the right to opt out of participation in or payment for certain health care services on the basis of conscience-based objections; providing requirements for a health care provider’s notice and documentation of such objection; providing whistle-blower protections for health care providers and health care payors that take certain actions or disclose certain information relating to the reporting of certain violations; prohibiting boards, or the Department of Health if there is no board, from taking disciplinary action against or denying a license to an individual based solely on specified conduct, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-57.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 1580 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1580/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1580 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1580/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1580 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1580/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **84–34** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–3** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **14–5** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rules — primary (person)
- Trumbull — primary (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-03-03** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Health Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-30** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 04/04/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-04** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Now in Rules
- **2023-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/19/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-19** CS by- Rules; YEAS 14 NAYS 5
- **2023-04-21** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/27/23
- **2023-04-25** CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2023-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-27** Amendment(s) failed (513000, 634746, 837090)
- **2023-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 28 NAYS 11 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** In Messages
- **2023-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/1/2023)
- **2023-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 623627 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 640239 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 784701 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 178097 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 813935 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 056009 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 012605 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 129827 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 457173 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 512377 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** CS passed; YEAS 84, NAYS 34 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-12** Chapter No. 2023-57
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/596f6a96-92a4-411d-92ba-7b1ad0baaac0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).