---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abortion"
description: "Abortion; Reclassifying the criminal offense for a specified violation; prohibiting physicians from performing or inducing the termination of the pregnancy of a minor unless specified requirements are satisfied; requiring a physician to obtain written consent from a minor’s parent or legal guardian before performing or inducing a termination of the pregnancy of a minor; providing exceptions to such consent requirement; providing criminal penalties for physicians, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 404"
citation: "Florida SB 404 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["domestic relations", "judicial branch", "public health"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-147"
primary_sponsors: ["Stargel"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-09-30"
last_action: "2020-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e105931e-c502-4c14-a3c1-21497f42bea9"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/404/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a6a964bb59d9b5bd92a4d6a742f45ad45c1e0d300a5fee0b57703e38db41e019"
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 404 (2020) — Abortion

Abortion; Reclassifying the criminal offense for a specified violation; prohibiting physicians from performing or inducing the termination of the pregnancy of a minor unless specified requirements are satisfied; requiring a physician to obtain written consent from a minor’s parent or legal guardian before performing or inducing a termination of the pregnancy of a minor; providing exceptions to such consent requirement; providing criminal penalties for physicians, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-147.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 404 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/404/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 404 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/404/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 404 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/404/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 404 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/404/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 404 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/404/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- A - 800009, Adoption, Second Reading — **41–74** (fail) · lower
- Third Reading — **23–17** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **75–43** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–7** (pass) · upper
- A - 329461, Adoption, Second Reading — **43–70** (fail) · lower
- A - 841177, Adoption, Second Reading — **45–71** (fail) · lower
- A - 252905, Adoption, Second Reading — **47–70** (fail) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stargel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-30** Filed `filing`
- **2019-10-15** Referred to Health Policy; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-05** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 11/12/19, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building --Amendment(s) Adopted - Temporarily Postponed
- **2019-12-02** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 12/10/19, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-12-10** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 6 NAYS 3
- **2019-12-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-12-13** Now in Judiciary
- **2020-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/15/20, 10:15 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2020-01-15** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 3 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-15** Now in Rules
- **2020-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/22/20, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-01-22** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 9 NAYS 7
- **2020-01-24** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-01-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-01-27** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2020-01-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/20
- **2020-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-29** Amendment(s) failed (197648, 207366, 237978, 343056, 363704, 380726, 386300, 393252, 404156, 407778, 454474, 456390, 458018, 458694, 467392, 532410, 581924, 754024, 771568, 880790, 909932, 927186, 938934, 969342) -SJ 202, 207, 210, 211, 212, 213
- **2020-01-29** Amendment(s) adopted (115836, 694892) -SJ 209, 213
- **2020-01-29** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-01-29** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 17 `passage`
- **2020-02-12** In Messages
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
- **2020-02-13** Received
- **2020-02-19** Substituted for HB 265
- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** Amendment(s) failed (252905, 329461, 341595, 357437, 568471, 584395, 723957, 800009, 841177, 852719, 899143, 956239, 960011, 969025) -HJ 592, 597
- **2020-02-19** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** CS passed; YEAS 75 NAYS 43 `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-01** Chapter No. 2020-147

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e105931e-c502-4c14-a3c1-21497f42bea9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).