--- type: "Bill" title: "Patient Care in Health Care Facilities" description: "Patient Care in Health Care Facilities; Authorizes unlicensed persons to assist patients with other specified tasks; revises provisions relating to medications & devices with which unlicensed persons may assist patients in self-administration; specifies staffing requirements for advanced life support ambulances during interfacility transfers; provides certain persons occupying such ambulances are in charge of patient care during transfers; revises list of medications that registered nurses may delegate administration of to certified nursing assistants or home health aides; authorizes certified nursing assistants to administer certain medication to patients in county detention facilities under certain circumstances." jurisdiction: "us/states/fl" legislature: "Florida Legislature" session: "2022" identifier: "HB 469" citation: "Florida HB 469 (2022)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"] status: "enacted" chapter_law: "2022-48" primary_sponsors: ["Trabulsy"] version_count: 4 action_count: 49 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2021-11-03" last_action: "2022-04-08" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00438c03-c979-46af-9506-40db951ac7b3" source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/469/ByCategory" source_hash: "d9860409dc5c80d6816bd05fb5fdd094bc90683b3b925e94a4e5c9013b2f0c95" 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 469 (2022) — Patient Care in Health Care Facilities Patient Care in Health Care Facilities; Authorizes unlicensed persons to assist patients with other specified tasks; revises provisions relating to medications & devices with which unlicensed persons may assist patients in self-administration; specifies staffing requirements for advanced life support ambulances during interfacility transfers; provides certain persons occupying such ambulances are in charge of patient care during transfers; revises list of medications that registered nurses may delegate administration of to certified nursing assistants or home health aides; authorizes certified nursing assistants to administer certain medication to patients in county detention facilities under certain circumstances. **Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-48. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **H 469 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/469/BillText/Filed/PDF) 2. **H 469 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/469/BillText/c1/PDF) 3. **H 469 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/469/BillText/e1/PDF) 4. **H 469 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/469/BillText/er/PDF) ## Votes - Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **20–0** (pass) · lower - Passage, Third Reading — **105–0** (pass) · lower - Favorable With Committee Substitute (Finance & Facilities Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower - Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper - Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower - Favorable (Professions & Public Health Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Finance and Facilities Subcommittee — primary (organization) - Trabulsy — primary (person) - Morales — cosponsor (person) - Tant — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2021-11-03** Filed `filing` - **2021-11-10** Referred to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee `referral-committee` - **2021-11-10** Referred to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee `referral-committee` - **2021-11-10** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee` - **2021-11-10** Now in Finance & Facilities Subcommittee - **2021-11-23** Added to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee agenda - **2021-12-02** Favorable with CS by Finance & Facilities Subcommittee - **2021-12-03** Reported out of Finance & Facilities Subcommittee - **2021-12-03** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) - **2021-12-03** CS Filed - **2021-12-07** Referred to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee `referral-committee` - **2021-12-07** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee` - **2021-12-07** Now in Professions & Public Health Subcommittee - **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) - **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) - **2022-01-14** Added to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee agenda - **2022-01-19** Favorable by Professions & Public Health Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable` - **2022-01-20** Reported out of Professions & Public Health Subcommittee - **2022-01-20** Now in Health & Human Services Committee - **2022-01-28** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda - **2022-02-01** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable` - **2022-02-01** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee - **2022-02-01** Bill released to House Calendar - **2022-02-01** 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 105, 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 - **2022-03-03** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal` - **2022-03-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading - **2022-03-03** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 718 - **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2022-03-03** Amendment(s) adopted (388784) - **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2022-03-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage` - **2022-03-03** In Messages - **2022-03-10** Added to Senate Message List - **2022-03-10** Amendment 388784 Concur - **2022-03-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage` - **2022-03-10** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled - **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor - **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature` - **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-48 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00438c03-c979-46af-9506-40db951ac7b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).