---
type: "Bill"
title: "Intermediate Care Facilities"
description: "Intermediate Care Facilities; Requiring certain facilities that have been granted a certificate-of-need exemption to demonstrate and maintain compliance with specified criteria; providing an exemption from a certificate-of-need requirement for certain intermediate care facilities; limiting the number of such exemptions the Agency for Health Care Administration may grant, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1344"
citation: "Florida SB 1344 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-60"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-12-27"
last_action: "2020-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/feda23ad-d912-4a88-b1bc-607d8d2689a2"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1344/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7644a03ff60baa2dc64406e6c0e8453ae166512427d50236e4fb2c58f6b5d64a"
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 1344 (2020) — Intermediate Care Facilities

Intermediate Care Facilities; Requiring certain facilities that have been granted a certificate-of-need exemption to demonstrate and maintain compliance with specified criteria; providing an exemption from a certificate-of-need requirement for certain intermediate care facilities; limiting the number of such exemptions the Agency for Health Care Administration may grant, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-60.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1344 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1344/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1344 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1344/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1344 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1344/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1344 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1344/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **30–8** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **79–36** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harrell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-27** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-13** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-23** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/28/20, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-01-28** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-29** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2020-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/18/20, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-18** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-20** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-27** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/03/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-03-03** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 21 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-05** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
- **2020-03-05** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Amendment(s) adopted (952648)
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 30 NAYS 8 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
- **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 79 NAYS 36 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-11** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-22** Chapter No. 2020-60

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/feda23ad-d912-4a88-b1bc-607d8d2689a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).