---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disability Retirement Benefits"
description: "Disability Retirement Benefits; Allowing members receiving care at federal Veterans Health Administration facilities to use certification by a specified number of physicians working at such facilities as proof of total and permanent disability for purposes of establishing eligibility for benefits, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 936"
citation: "Florida SB 936 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-19"
primary_sponsors: ["Gainer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-11-14"
last_action: "2020-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f82da8ca-3195-4799-8ab8-10826d4e4302"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/936/ByCategory"
source_hash: "24740018133f29195fbf9e31f6cf6b4e199e2b8b1b3f6f9794bbccb7b9223152"
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 936 (2020) — Disability Retirement Benefits

Disability Retirement Benefits; Allowing members receiving care at federal Veterans Health Administration facilities to use certification by a specified number of physicians working at such facilities as proof of total and permanent disability for purposes of establishing eligibility for benefits, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-19.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 936 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/936/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 936 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/936/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gainer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-14** Filed `filing`
- **2019-12-13** Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Military and Veterans Affairs and Space; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-06** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/13/20, 1:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-01-13** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-13** Now in Military and Veterans Affairs and Space
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs and Space, 02/05/20, 9:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2020-02-05** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs and Space; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-05** Now in Rules
- **2020-02-07** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/12/20, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-12** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-03** In Messages
- **2020-03-06** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
- **2020-03-06** Received
- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** Passed; YEAS 115 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-05-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-10** Chapter No. 2020-19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f82da8ca-3195-4799-8ab8-10826d4e4302`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).