---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Access Dental Licenses"
description: "Health Access Dental Licenses; Reenacts provisions relating to issuance, renewal, & revocation of health access dental licenses; provides for retroactive application."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1461"
citation: "Florida HB 1461 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-47"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45e00515-91b0-4913-96d9-cd08bc38069f"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1461/ByCategory"
source_hash: "587a37a73d281405884f74792962a7a6bfdf4cebd5cb8dc36cedb9fe42c4dea2"
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 1461 (2020) — Health Access Dental Licenses

Health Access Dental Licenses; Reenacts provisions relating to issuance, renewal, & revocation of health access dental licenses; provides for retroactive application.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-47.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1461 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1461/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1461 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1461/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1461 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1461/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health Quality Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Health Quality Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Health Quality Subcommittee, 01/28/20, 9:00 am, Mashburn Hall
- **2020-01-28** CS by Health Quality Subcommittee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-29** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-01-29** CS by Health Quality Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-01-30** Original reference(s) removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-01-30** CS referred to Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-01-30** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/06/20, 12:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-06** Favorable by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-06** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** CS passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-02-26** In Messages
- **2020-02-27** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Received
- **2020-03-05** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-05** Substituted for CS/SB 1296
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 -SJ 509, 510 `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-19** Chapter No. 2020-47

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45e00515-91b0-4913-96d9-cd08bc38069f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).