---
type: "Bill"
title: "Podiatric Medicine"
description: "Podiatric Medicine; Authorizes Board of Podiatric Medicine to require specified number of continuing education hours related to safe & effective prescribing of controlled substances; provides for governance of podiatric physicians who are supervising medical assistants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 17"
citation: "Florida HB 17 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-136"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell", "Killebrew"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-11-30"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c34c08f4-ebb7-454b-b67c-50291f92b056"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/17/ByCategory"
source_hash: "21399adf5b3f704105b06f986faee635f784cb3ab5d188a869de958c0597ea09"
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 HB 17 (2021) — Podiatric Medicine

Podiatric Medicine; Authorizes Board of Podiatric Medicine to require specified number of continuing education hours related to safe & effective prescribing of controlled substances; provides for governance of podiatric physicians who are supervising medical assistants.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-136.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 17 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/17/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 17 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/17/BillText/e1/PDF)
3. **H 17 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/17/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Professions & Public Health Subcommittee) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bell — primary (person)
- Killebrew — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-11-30** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-15** Referred to Professions and Public Health Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Added to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-03** Favorable by Professions & Public Health Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03** Reported out of Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
- **2021-03-03** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2021-03-05** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2021-03-09** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2021-03-09** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2021-03-09** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-25** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/31/2021)
- **2021-03-26** Amendment 536577 filed
- **2021-03-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-31** Amendment 536577 adopted
- **2021-03-31** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-03-31** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** Passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** In Messages
- **2021-04-07** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-07** Received
- **2021-04-08** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-08** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-08** Substituted for CS/SB 170
- **2021-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-08** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-08** In Messages
- **2021-04-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-136

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c34c08f4-ebb7-454b-b67c-50291f92b056`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).