---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home Medical Equipment Providers"
description: "Home Medical Equipment Providers; Exempting allopathic, osteopathic, and chiropractic physicians who sell or rent electrostimulation medical equipment and supplies in the course of their practice from certain licensure requirements, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1742"
citation: "Florida SB 1742 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-78"
primary_sponsors: ["Mayfield"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2baee47a-a3e7-4e83-8027-db151ee39f52"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1742/ByCategory"
source_hash: "590c2a3cc50586fc0dccd2aaff8349d745d378f776e31f180d6734a7a1fa2f5e"
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 1742 (2020) — Home Medical Equipment Providers

Home Medical Equipment Providers; Exempting allopathic, osteopathic, and chiropractic physicians who sell or rent electrostimulation medical equipment and supplies in the course of their practice from certain licensure requirements, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-78.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1742 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1742/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1742 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1742/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1742 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1742/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mayfield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** 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 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-29** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2020-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/13/20, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-13** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-13** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/27/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-27** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/20
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-05** 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 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-24** Chapter No. 2020-78

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2baee47a-a3e7-4e83-8027-db151ee39f52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).