---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Regulation"
description: "Health Regulation; Revising the purpose of patient care networks from serving patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome to serving those with human immunodeficiency virus; requiring the Department of Health to develop strategies to maximize federal-state partnerships that provide incentives for physicians to practice in medically underserved or rural areas; revising term limits for Tier 3 cancer center designations within the Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers Program; requiring dentists and certified registered dental hygienists to report in writing certain adverse incidents to the department within a specified timeframe, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 713"
citation: "Florida HB 713 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-133"
primary_sponsors: ["Health Quality Subcommittee"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 48
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-11-19"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90f28b23-309e-44dc-967f-a3eda874cf3d"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/713/ByCategory"
source_hash: "53b897364dfc852583655bfad43cab31fd54cdbaefe53eb7870d7b79c1789f97"
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 713 (2020) — Health Regulation

Health Regulation; Revising the purpose of patient care networks from serving patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome to serving those with human immunodeficiency virus; requiring the Department of Health to develop strategies to maximize federal-state partnerships that provide incentives for physicians to practice in medically underserved or rural areas; revising term limits for Tier 3 cancer center designations within the Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers Program; requiring dentists and certified registered dental hygienists to report in writing certain adverse incidents to the department within a specified timeframe, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-133.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 713 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/713/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 713 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/713/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 713 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/713/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 713 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/713/BillText/c3/PDF)
5. **H 713 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/713/BillText/e1/PDF)
6. **H 713 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/713/BillText/e2/PDF)
7. **H 713 e3** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/713/BillText/e3/PDF)
8. **H 713 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/713/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health Quality Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **79–31** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- SA - 542517, Adoption, Second Reading — **42–68** (fail) · lower
- Passage — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health Quality Subcommittee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-19** Filed `filing`
- **2019-12-03** Referred to Health Quality Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-12-04** On Committee agenda-- Health Quality Subcommittee, 12/11/19, 8:30 am, Webster Hall
- **2019-12-11** CS by Health Quality Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2019-12-16** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-12-18** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Health Quality Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/28/20, 12:00 pm, Sumner Hall
- **2020-01-28** CS/CS by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-29** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-01-29** CS/CS by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-01-30** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/12/20, 10:00 am, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-12** CS/CS/CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-14** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-14** CS/CS/CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-17** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/20
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Amendment(s) adopted (053691, 157985, 434551, 551619, 628761, 882371) -HJ 763,769
- **2020-03-05** Amendment(s) failed (542517)
- **2020-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (284801)
- **2020-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 79 NAYS 31 `passage`
- **2020-03-06** In Messages
- **2020-03-06** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-06** Received
- **2020-03-13** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-13** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 230
- **2020-03-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-13** Amendment(s) adopted (624474)
- **2020-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-13** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-13** In returning messages
- **2020-03-13** Amendment(s) to Senate amendment(s) adopted (888727)
- **2020-03-13** Concurred in Senate amendment(s) as amended (624474) -HJ 1205, 1219
- **2020-03-13** Concurred in 2 amendment(s) (272342, 446828) -HJ 1219, 1220
- **2020-03-13** CS passed as amended; YEAS 110 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-13** In returning messages
- **2020-03-13** Concurred in House amendment(s) to Senate amendment(s) (888727)
- **2020-03-13** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Chapter No. 2020-133

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90f28b23-309e-44dc-967f-a3eda874cf3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).