---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of Minority Health and Health Equity"
description: "Office of Minority Health and Health Equity; Requires Office of Minority Health & Health Equity to develop & promote statewide implementation of certain policies, programs, & practices; requires representative from each county health department to serve as minority health liaison; requires DOH to maintain specified information on its website; requires office to serve as liaison to & assist certain federal offices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 183"
citation: "Florida HB 183 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-117"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown", "Joseph"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-08"
last_action: "2021-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54460ef6-9c91-454c-aaa7-de49b7662595"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/183/ByCategory"
source_hash: "285d8c306772e60c81575ece764ab759d09d8771ca6e074c146ccb2932513290"
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 183 (2021) — Office of Minority Health and Health Equity

Office of Minority Health and Health Equity; Requires Office of Minority Health & Health Equity to develop & promote statewide implementation of certain policies, programs, & practices; requires representative from each county health department to serve as minority health liaison; requires DOH to maintain specified information on its website; requires office to serve as liaison to & assist certain federal offices.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-117.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 183 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/183/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 183 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/183/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 183 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/183/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Professions & Public Health Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)
- Joseph — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-22** Referred to Professions and Public Health Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-19** Added to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-23** Favorable with CS by Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
- **2021-03-24** Reported out of Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
- **2021-03-24** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-03-24** CS Filed
- **2021-03-24** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-03-26** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-04-07** Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-04-09** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-09** Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-04-09** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2021-04-12** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2021-04-14** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-14** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2021-04-14** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2021-04-14** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-19** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/22/2021)
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-22** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-23** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-23** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-23** Received
- **2021-04-26** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-26** Substituted for CS/SB 404
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-17** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-18** Chapter No. 2021-117

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54460ef6-9c91-454c-aaa7-de49b7662595`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).