---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rare Disease Advisory Council"
description: "Rare Disease Advisory Council; Creating the advisory council adjunct to the Department of Health; specifying the purpose of the advisory council; defining the term “rare disease”; prescribing duties and responsibilities of the advisory council, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 272"
citation: "Florida SB 272 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-122"
primary_sponsors: ["Baxley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-15"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89bd33ca-4b16-43d3-8118-465775b6f2be"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/272/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f0d56e8bf76634014ab5ce7ea4aeb717fd759f71f8587585b208af7fcaef9215"
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 272 (2021) — Rare Disease Advisory Council

Rare Disease Advisory Council; Creating the advisory council adjunct to the Department of Health; specifying the purpose of the advisory council; defining the term “rare disease”; prescribing duties and responsibilities of the advisory council, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-122.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 272 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/272/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 272 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/272/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 272 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/272/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 272 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/272/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Baxley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-15** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/04/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-02-04** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-05** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-02-08** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2021-02-26** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 03/03/21, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2021-03-03** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-04** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-03-08** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/11/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-11** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-12** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-15** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-15** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/18/21
- **2021-03-16** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2021-03-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-18** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 -SJ 263, 264 `passage`
- **2021-03-18** Immediately certified
- **2021-03-18** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-122

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89bd33ca-4b16-43d3-8118-465775b6f2be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).