---
type: "Bill"
title: "Care of Students with Epilepsy or Seizure Disorders"
description: "Care of Students with Epilepsy or Seizure Disorders; Requires school to provide epilepsy or seizure disorder care to student; provides for creation & implementation of individualized seizure action plan for students with epilepsy or seizure disorders to receive health care at school; provides requirements for DOE, schools, school nurses & certain other school employees, & such plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 173"
citation: "Florida HB 173 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["k"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-19"
primary_sponsors: ["Duran", "Gottlieb"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 47
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-09-22"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fd37509-943d-4718-9dc1-5e9c51d8c9a3"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/173/ByCategory"
source_hash: "bf66325ee0856db757f3d717f481ad100576f28f9dee68db65f2cae73b5e10f6"
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 173 (2022) — Care of Students with Epilepsy or Seizure Disorders

Care of Students with Epilepsy or Seizure Disorders; Requires school to provide epilepsy or seizure disorder care to student; provides for creation & implementation of individualized seizure action plan for students with epilepsy or seizure disorders to receive health care at school; provides requirements for DOE, schools, school nurses & certain other school employees, & such plans.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-19.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 173 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/173/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 173 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/173/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 173 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/173/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Education & Employment Committee) — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Duran — primary (person)
- Early Learning and Elementary Education Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Gottlieb — primary (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bush — cosponsor (person)
- Daley — cosponsor (person)
- DiCeglie — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Hinson — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Jenne — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- LaMarca — cosponsor (person)
- Learned — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Payne — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, F. — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Silvers — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)
- Zika — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-22** Filed `filing`
- **2021-09-29** Referred to Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-29** Referred to Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-29** Referred to PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-29** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-29** Now in Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-21** PCS added to Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-01-25** Favorable with CS by Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee
- **2022-01-25** Reported out of Early Learning & Elementary Education Subcommittee
- **2022-01-25** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-01-25** CS Filed
- **2022-01-26** Original reference removed: PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-01-26** Referred to Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Now in Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee
- **2022-01-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-01-31** Added to Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-02-02** Favorable by Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-02** Reported out of Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee
- **2022-02-02** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2022-02-04** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2022-02-09** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-09** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2022-02-09** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2022-02-09** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/24/2022)
- **2022-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-02-24** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-25** CS passed; YEAS 106, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-25** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-25** In Messages
- **2022-02-25** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Received
- **2022-03-02** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-02** Substituted for SB 340
- **2022-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** In Messages
- **2022-03-02** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-03-22** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-03-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-28** Chapter No. 2022-19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fd37509-943d-4718-9dc1-5e9c51d8c9a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).