---
type: "Bill"
title: "Closing the Gap Grant Proposals"
description: "Closing the Gap Grant Proposals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1045"
citation: "Florida HB 1045 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public health"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-154"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16c236bf-91ea-40e4-a53d-7d54c73b0c1c"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1045/ByCategory"
source_hash: "cf9f60218093c8f89b5cf4b2f17543d46fab1b51849854cf81308f3396e2fbc5"
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 1045 (2019) — Closing the Gap Grant Proposals

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-154.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **H 1045 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1045/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1045 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1045/BillText/e1/PDF)
3. **H 1045 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1045/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Health Quality Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Message, Passage — **110–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-22** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-04** Referred to Health Quality Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Health Quality Subcommittee, 03/19/19, 8:00 am, Webster Hall
- **2019-03-19** Favorable by Health Quality Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-19** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2019-03-29** On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 04/02/19, 1:00 pm, Sumner Hall
- **2019-04-02** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2019-04-05** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 04/09/19, 2:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2019-04-09** Favorable by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-11** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/17/19
- **2019-04-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** Passed; YEAS 114 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-23** In Messages
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Received
- **2019-05-01** Withdrawn from Health Policy; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2019-05-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-05-01** Substituted for CS/SB 1436
- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Amendment(s) adopted (438632)
- **2019-05-01** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0
- **2019-05-02** In returning messages
- **2019-05-03** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (438632) -HJ 1241, 1242
- **2019-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 110 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-03** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2019-06-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-27** Chapter No. 2019-154

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16c236bf-91ea-40e4-a53d-7d54c73b0c1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).