Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Dental Services"
+description: "Dental Services; Requires dentists & certain partnerships, or corporations to designate with board dentist of record & provide information to certain patients; requires any individual, partnership, or corporation that provides dental services through telehealth to make available specified information; defines term “advertisement”; requires advertisements of dental services provided through telehealth to include specified disclaimer; provides requirements for initial examination for orthodontic appliances; defines \"in-person examination.\""
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 855"
+citation: "Florida HB 855 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2024-214"
+primary_sponsors: ["Berfield", "McClure"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-12-12"
+last_action: "2024-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16eb9040-f771-44b4-91aa-1e233cfca88b"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/855/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "39b49801a24be610ea4819814c8af831b26f74b9990b52eb50ee184697465de7"
+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 HB 855 (2024) — Dental Services
+
+Dental Services; Requires dentists & certain partnerships, or corporations to designate with board dentist of record & provide information to certain patients; requires any individual, partnership, or corporation that provides dental services through telehealth to make available specified information; defines term “advertisement”; requires advertisements of dental services provided through telehealth to include specified disclaimer; provides requirements for initial examination for orthodontic appliances; defines "in-person examination."
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-214.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **H 855 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/855/BillText/Filed/PDF)
+2. **H 855 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/855/BillText/c1/PDF)
+3. **H 855 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/855/BillText/er/PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Berfield — primary (person)
+- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
+- McClure — primary (person)
+- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
+- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
+- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-12-12** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-12-27** Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `referral-committee`
+- **2023-12-27** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2023-12-27** Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
+- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
+- **2024-01-12** Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
+- **2024-01-17** Favorable by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-01-17** Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
+- **2024-01-17** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
+- **2024-02-06** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
+- **2024-02-08** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-09** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
+- **2024-02-09** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
+- **2024-02-09** CS Filed `filing`
+- **2024-02-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-12** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2024-02-12** Added to Second Reading Calendar
+- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
+- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-21** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-22** CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2024-02-22** In Messages
+- **2024-02-23** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-04** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
+- **2024-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2024-03-04** Substituted for SB 302
+- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2024-03-04** In Messages
+- **2024-03-04** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-30** Chapter No. 2024-214
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16eb9040-f771-44b4-91aa-1e233cfca88b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
+