---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care"
description: "Health Care"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 843"
citation: "Florida HB 843 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public health", "insurance", "and solicitations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-138"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2257a449-b973-416c-8107-4d09808c2e4c"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/843/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b0d880a6f2546d81be6d89c80f9acc1fc72d5f59452399e2d672139e564f093e"
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 843 (2019) — Health Care

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-138.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 843 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/843/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 843 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/843/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 843 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/843/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 843 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/843/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Health Market Reform Subcommittee) — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-20** Referred to Health Market Reform Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** On Committee agenda-- Health Market Reform Subcommittee, 03/07/19, 9:00 am, Mashburn Hall
- **2019-03-07** Favorable by Health Market Reform Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** 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 14 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-04** 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 114 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-18** In Messages
- **2019-04-18** Referred to Health Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Received
- **2019-04-26** Withdrawn from Health Policy; Rules `withdrawal`
- **2019-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-26** Substituted for CS/SB 7078
- **2019-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-26** Amendment(s) adopted (565298)
- **2019-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-29** In returning messages
- **2019-04-29** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (565298) -HJ 1002, 1008
- **2019-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-29** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2019-06-25** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-26** Chapter No. 2019-138, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7 (Ch. 2019-105)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2257a449-b973-416c-8107-4d09808c2e4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).