---
type: "Bill"
title: "Patient Safety Culture Surveys"
description: "Patient Safety Culture Surveys; Requires licensed facilities to biennially conduct anonymous patient safety culture survey using applicable federal publication; requires facilities to biennially submit such survey to AHCA; requires agency to collect, compile, & publish survey data; revises requirements for submission of health care data to agency; provides appropriations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 763"
citation: "Florida HB 763 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-134"
primary_sponsors: ["Health Market Reform Subcommittee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-11-25"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5931b5a-422b-4461-8733-886df68b33fe"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/763/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a7bb213b9ffaa123e788546528cfaba34b5dd0fbc179be53d35116cbc9ed847b"
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 763 (2020) — Patient Safety Culture Surveys

Patient Safety Culture Surveys; Requires licensed facilities to biennially conduct anonymous patient safety culture survey using applicable federal publication; requires facilities to biennially submit such survey to AHCA; requires agency to collect, compile, & publish survey data; revises requirements for submission of health care data to agency; provides appropriations.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-134.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 763 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/763/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 763 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/763/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 763 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/763/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 763 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/763/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health Market Reform Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health Market Reform Subcommittee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-25** Filed `filing`
- **2019-12-16** Referred to Health Market Reform Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Health Market Reform Subcommittee, 02/04/20, 8:00 am, Mashburn Hall
- **2020-02-04** CS by Health Market Reform Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-06** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-07** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-02-07** On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 02/11/20, 1:30 pm, Reed Hall
- **2020-02-07** CS by Health Market Reform Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-02-11** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-14** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/18/20, 3:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-18** CS/CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-20** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-20** CS/CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/20
- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 119 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-04** In Messages
- **2020-03-05** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-05** Received
- **2020-03-10** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-10** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1370
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Chapter No. 2020-134

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5931b5a-422b-4461-8733-886df68b33fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).