---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care for Children"
description: "Health Care for Children; Requiring the Department of Health to create and make available electronically a pamphlet with specified information; revising applicable provisions for the reimbursement of school-based services by the Agency for Health Care Administration to certain school districts; requiring certain individual educational plan teams and individualized family support plan teams to include a specified specialist, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 81"
citation: "Florida HB 81 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-79"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrade"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-08-21"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fecd043-1423-4e0e-9208-e42c37226124"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/81/ByCategory"
source_hash: "18cadbc96b595c177501c29365442a09f587cce011789fce96585c9c4030013a"
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 81 (2020) — Health Care for Children

Health Care for Children; Requiring the Department of Health to create and make available electronically a pamphlet with specified information; revising applicable provisions for the reimbursement of school-based services by the Agency for Health Care Administration to certain school districts; requiring certain individual educational plan teams and individualized family support plan teams to include a specified specialist, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-79.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 81 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/81/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 81 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/81/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 81 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/81/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 81 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/81/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Health Market Reform Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andrade — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-21** Filed `filing`
- **2019-09-23** Referred to Health Market Reform Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-06** On Committee agenda-- Health Market Reform Subcommittee, 11/13/19, 3:30 pm, Mashburn Hall
- **2019-11-13** Favorable by Health Market Reform Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-11-13** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/15/20, 1:00 pm, Sumner Hall
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-15** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-15** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-01-28** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 01/30/20, 9:00 am, Morris Hall
- **2020-01-30** CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 14 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-03** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-03** CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-04** 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 117 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-02-26** In Messages
- **2020-02-27** Referred to Education; Health Policy; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Received
- **2020-03-10** Withdrawn from Education; Health Policy; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-10** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 190
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Amendment(s) adopted (719906)
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** In returning messages
- **2020-03-12** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (719906)
- **2020-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-24** Chapter No. 2020-79

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fecd043-1423-4e0e-9208-e42c37226124`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).