---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality"
description: "Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality; Revises purpose & requirements for Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education & Use Prevention Program; requires DOH to contract with local healthy start coalitions for creation of fetal & infant mortality review committees; prohibits physician from performing abortion if gestational age of fetus is determined to be more than specified number of weeks; provides exception; requires directors of certain medical facilities & certain physicians to submit monthly report to AHCA electronically; requires hospitals participate in minimum number of quality improvement initiatives."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 5"
citation: "Florida HB 5 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-69"
primary_sponsors: ["Grall", "Persons-Mulicka"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 61
vote_count: 17
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ac686fc-dc60-4917-ba6a-1326501bfa94"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/5/ByCategory"
source_hash: "324da22ea386374e86ff2a8df00c305c0d9719e487aed0392c7bdf0a22e644a9"
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 5 (2022) — Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality

Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality; Revises purpose & requirements for Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education & Use Prevention Program; requires DOH to contract with local healthy start coalitions for creation of fetal & infant mortality review committees; prohibits physician from performing abortion if gestational age of fetus is determined to be more than specified number of weeks; provides exception; requires directors of certain medical facilities & certain physicians to submit monthly report to AHCA electronically; requires hospitals participate in minimum number of quality improvement initiatives.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-69.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 5 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/5/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 5 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/5/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 5 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/5/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- A - 033975, Adoption, Second Reading — **35–71** (fail) · lower
- A - 552413, Adoption, Second Reading — **37–74** (fail) · lower
- Third Reading — **23–15** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–5** (pass) · lower
- A - 358023, Adoption, Second Reading — **34–76** (fail) · lower
- A - 524737, Adoption, Second Reading — **38–74** (fail) · lower
- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **14–7** (pass) · lower
- A - 809978, Amendment, Second Reading — **15–22** (fail) · upper
- Favorable — **13–6** (pass) · upper
- A - 033975, Quorum, Second Reading — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Professions & Public Health Subcommittee) — **12–6** (pass) · lower
- A - 447821, Adoption, Second Reading — **36–75** (fail) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **78–39** (pass) · lower
- A - 358023, Quorum, Second Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
- Quorum, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- A - 393925, Adoption, Second Reading — **37–74** (fail) · lower
- A - 477126, Amendment, Second Reading — **15–23** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Grall — primary (person)
- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Persons-Mulicka — primary (person)
- Andrade — cosponsor (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Beltran — cosponsor (person)
- Borrero — cosponsor (person)
- Brannan — cosponsor (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- DiCeglie — cosponsor (person)
- Drake — cosponsor (person)
- Fabricio — cosponsor (person)
- Fetterhoff — cosponsor (person)
- Fine — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Giallombardo — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory — cosponsor (person)
- Harding — cosponsor (person)
- Ingoglia — cosponsor (person)
- Latvala — cosponsor (person)
- Maggard — cosponsor (person)
- Maney — cosponsor (person)
- Massullo — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
- Payne — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Roach — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Rommel — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Shoaf — cosponsor (person)
- Sirois — cosponsor (person)
- Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- Toledo — cosponsor (person)
- Truenow — cosponsor (person)
- Yarborough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Now in Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
- **2022-01-14** Added to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-01-19** Favorable by Professions & Public Health Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-19** Reported out of Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
- **2022-01-19** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-01-25** Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-01-27** Favorable with CS by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-01-28** Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-01-28** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-01-28** CS Filed
- **2022-01-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-02-01** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2022-02-08** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2022-02-10** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-10** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2022-02-10** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2022-02-10** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/15/2022)
- **2022-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 253699 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 033975 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 309013 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 358023 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 447821 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 704921 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 524737 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 203483 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 420415 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 933759 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 552413 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 393925 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 338453 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Amendment 926019 Failed
- **2022-02-15** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-02-15** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-17** CS passed; YEAS 78, NAYS 39 `passage`
- **2022-02-17** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-17** In Messages
- **2022-02-17** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/21/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-17** Received
- **2022-02-21** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 13 NAYS 6 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-28** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/02/22
- **2022-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** Amendment(s) failed (408524, 476638, 477126, 574340, 733896, 766018, 809978, 870010, 885302, 978858) -SJ 506, 508, 509, 510
- **2022-03-02** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** CS passed; YEAS 23 NAYS 15 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-04-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-14** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-15** Chapter No. 2022-69

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ac686fc-dc60-4917-ba6a-1326501bfa94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).