---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reproductive Health"
description: "Reproductive Health; Requiring the Department of Health to immediately suspend the license of certain health care practitioners under certain circumstances; defining the term “pelvic examination”; prohibiting health care practitioners and certain students from performing a pelvic examination on a patient without first obtaining the written consent of the patient or the patient’s legal representative; establishing the criminal offense of reproductive battery, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 698"
citation: "Florida SB 698 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-31"
primary_sponsors: ["Book"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-10-29"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01bced0f-99a0-4127-8472-aebd60badd19"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/698/ByCategory"
source_hash: "618b4624b8cfb2309703cb2bdc910c2400906c2c7b0df2c43f1bb2479f1479f6"
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 698 (2020) — Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health; Requiring the Department of Health to immediately suspend the license of certain health care practitioners under certain circumstances; defining the term “pelvic examination”; prohibiting health care practitioners and certain students from performing a pelvic examination on a patient without first obtaining the written consent of the patient or the patient’s legal representative; establishing the criminal offense of reproductive battery, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-31.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 698 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/698/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 698 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/698/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 698 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/698/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 698 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/698/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 698 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/698/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 698 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/698/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Book — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-29** Filed `filing`
- **2019-11-18** Referred to Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/11/20, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-11** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-12** Now in Criminal Justice
- **2020-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/18/20, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2020-02-18** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-19** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-02-19** Now in Rules
- **2020-02-19** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2020-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/20, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-26** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-28** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** CS/CS by Rules 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** Amendment(s) adopted (714748)
- **2020-03-04** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** CS passed as amended; 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** Amendment(s) adopted (167817) -HJ 1067, 1068
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** In returning messages
- **2020-03-12** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (167817)
- **2020-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-19** Chapter No. 2020-31

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01bced0f-99a0-4127-8472-aebd60badd19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).