---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid"
description: "Medicaid; Revising the types of emergency transportation vehicle services provided to Medicare-eligible persons for which Medicaid shall pay deductibles and coinsurance; specifying that such payments must be made according to certain procedure codes, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 348"
citation: "Florida SB 348 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-95"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-21"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b5a8999-c2bb-49d2-8d46-f883c6fe2fbf"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/348/ByCategory"
source_hash: "fb2e26228dfae8669e13355c7c9fa6843f3a143f57686bcb3f2a797c26066899"
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 348 (2021) — Medicaid

Medicaid; Revising the types of emergency transportation vehicle services provided to Medicare-eligible persons for which Medicaid shall pay deductibles and coinsurance; specifying that such payments must be made according to certain procedure codes, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-95.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 348 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/348/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 348 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/348/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 348 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/348/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-21** 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: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-03** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-03-08** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/11/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-11** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-15** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/18/21
- **2021-03-18** Read 2nd time -SJ 262, 267 `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-18** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-18** Immediately certified
- **2021-03-18** In Messages
- **2021-04-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2021)
- **2021-04-08** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-04-13** Substituted for CS/HB 461
- **2021-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-13** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-17** Chapter No. 2021-95

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b5a8999-c2bb-49d2-8d46-f883c6fe2fbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).