---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic Prescribing"
description: "Electronic Prescribing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 831"
citation: "Florida HB 831 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-112"
primary_sponsors: ["Mariano"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29283d65-de6a-4df3-8b33-b50afe4f4c94"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/831/ByCategory"
source_hash: "38111754d9c841ec161c760e16be1f3b4ef9c270b58b19e2156f765a02bef832"
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 831 (2019) — Electronic Prescribing

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-112.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 831 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/831/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 831 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/831/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 831 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/831/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 831 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/831/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Quality Subcommittee) — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Senate Message, Passage — **104–8** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **12–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **111–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mariano — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-20** Referred to Health Quality Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** On Committee agenda-- Health Quality Subcommittee, 03/05/19, 1:00 pm, Webster Hall
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable by Health Quality Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2019-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 03/26/19, 12:00 pm, Sumner Hall
- **2019-03-26** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2019-04-01** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 04/03/19, 9:00 am, Morris Hall
- **2019-04-03** CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 12 NAYS 2
- **2019-04-03** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-04-04** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/10/19
- **2019-04-04** CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2019-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-11** CS passed; YEAS 111 NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2019-04-18** In Messages
- **2019-04-18** Referred to Health Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Received
- **2019-05-01** Withdrawn from Health Policy; Rules `withdrawal`
- **2019-05-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-05-01** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1192
- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Amendment(s) adopted (161690)
- **2019-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-01** In returning messages
- **2019-05-02** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (161690) -HJ 1139, 1142
- **2019-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 104 NAYS 8 `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2019-06-13** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-18** Chapter No. 2019-112

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29283d65-de6a-4df3-8b33-b50afe4f4c94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).