---
type: "Bill"
title: "Individuals with Disabilities"
description: "Individuals with Disabilities; Requiring persons and entities under contract with the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to use the agency data management systems to bill for services; revising criteria used by the agency to develop a client’s iBudget; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to seek federal approval to provide consumer-directed options; providing an exemption from a certificate-of-need requirement for certain intermediate care facilities, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "Florida SB 82 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-71"
primary_sponsors: ["Bean"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fe68b3d-12e4-4f13-a176-1fd9fc818816"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/82/ByCategory"
source_hash: "538373fc9f4057b043bda47019f7f18080eb51098b8e90ab2c53ea903f401bfc"
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 82 (2020) — Individuals with Disabilities

Individuals with Disabilities; Requiring persons and entities under contract with the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to use the agency data management systems to bill for services; revising criteria used by the agency to develop a client’s iBudget; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to seek federal approval to provide consumer-directed options; providing an exemption from a certificate-of-need requirement for certain intermediate care facilities, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-71.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 82 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/82/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 82 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/82/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 82 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/82/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 82 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/82/BillText/e2/HTML)
5. **S 82 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/82/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **78–37** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bean — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-09** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-09** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/15/20, 10:30 am, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-15** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 5 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-15** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2020-01-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 01/28/20, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-01-28** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 1
- **2020-01-30** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/05/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2020-02-03** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/06/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled
- **2020-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/27/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-27** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-02** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time -SJ 490, 504 `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (401842)
- **2020-03-06** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** Amendment(s) adopted (697470)
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 2 `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 78 NAYS 37 `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. 2020-71

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fe68b3d-12e4-4f13-a176-1fd9fc818816`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).