---
type: "Bill"
title: "Acute and Post-acute Hospital Care at Home"
description: "Acute and Post-acute Hospital Care at Home; Authorizing paramedics to perform certain life support services to patients receiving acute and post-acute hospital care at home under certain circumstances; providing that a physician or medical director who supervises or directs the provision of such services by a paramedic is liable for any act or omission during the provision of such services; specifying that Class III institutional pharmacies may dispense, distribute, compound, and fill prescriptions for medicinal drugs for inpatient treatment and patients receiving acute and post-acute hospital care at home, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1222"
citation: "Florida SB 1222 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["county organization and intergovernmental relations", "crimes", "executive branch", "military affairs and related matters", "municipalities", "public health", "regulation of professions and occupations", "social welfare", "solicitations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-35"
primary_sponsors: ["Bean", "Health Policy", "Judiciary"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-12-10"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc33b319-6351-40c9-b503-a1fb7d71f0c4"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1222/ByCategory"
source_hash: "326b2e36577ef10f6cdda12bdb99ea872be841217d6ef77321285273ebe7a319"
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 1222 (2022) — Acute and Post-acute Hospital Care at Home

Acute and Post-acute Hospital Care at Home; Authorizing paramedics to perform certain life support services to patients receiving acute and post-acute hospital care at home under certain circumstances; providing that a physician or medical director who supervises or directs the provision of such services by a paramedic is liable for any act or omission during the provision of such services; specifying that Class III institutional pharmacies may dispense, distribute, compound, and fill prescriptions for medicinal drugs for inpatient treatment and patients receiving acute and post-acute hospital care at home, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-35.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1222 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1222/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1222 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1222/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1222 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1222/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1222 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1222/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bean — primary (person)
- Health Policy — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-10** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-05** Referred to Health Policy; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/19/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-19** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-19** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-19** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2022-01-20** Now in Judiciary
- **2022-02-02** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/07/22, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-07** CS/CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-08** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-09** CS/CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2022-02-11** Now in Rules
- **2022-02-11** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/15/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-15** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/23/22
- **2022-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-23** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-35

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc33b319-6351-40c9-b503-a1fb7d71f0c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).