---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Plans"
description: "Health Plans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 322"
citation: "Florida SB 322 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-129"
primary_sponsors: ["Simpson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e0bb168-bcc1-4b1f-9226-fcda6b42d9a0"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/322/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9f35a5cd16256e8966bac0b0aa849208309758da805d11b59afb67aa32320de8"
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 322 (2019) — Health Plans

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-129.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 322 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/322/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 322 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/322/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 322 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/322/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 322 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/322/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 322 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/322/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 322 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/322/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **16–1** (pass) · upper
- CS/CS/SB 322 — **23–13** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- SD2 - 130946, Amendment, Second Reading — **16–23** (fail) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **70–42** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **23–14** (pass) · upper
- AA1A - 636148, Amendment, Second Reading — **15–23** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Simpson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Filed `filing`
- **2019-01-25** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Health Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 02/19/19, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-02-19** CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 6 NAYS 1
- **2019-02-21** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-02-22** Now in Health Policy
- **2019-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/04/19, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-03-04** CS/CS by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-03-05** CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
- **2019-03-07** Now in Rules
- **2019-03-07** CS/CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2019-03-08** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/13/19, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-03-13** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-08** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/10/19
- **2019-04-10** Retained on Calendar
- **2019-04-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/19
- **2019-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-24** Amendment(s) adopted (220604)
- **2019-04-24** Ordered engrossed
- **2019-04-24** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-25** CS passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 14 `passage`
- **2019-04-25** In Messages
- **2019-04-29** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/30/19
- **2019-04-29** Received
- **2019-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-30** Amendment(s) adopted (819705) -HJ 1078, 1080
- **2019-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 70 NAYS 42 `passage`
- **2019-05-01** In returning messages
- **2019-05-03** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (819705)
- **2019-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 13 `passage`
- **2019-05-03** 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. 2019-129

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e0bb168-bcc1-4b1f-9226-fcda6b42d9a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).