---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clinical Laboratory Testing"
description: "Clinical Laboratory Testing; Exempting registered nurses from clinical laboratory personnel licensure requirements under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1374"
citation: "Florida SB 1374 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-37"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Health Policy", "Rodriguez"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-12-28"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26c4cbbd-8cf3-407b-abee-29a35f584d89"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1374/ByCategory"
source_hash: "517a4979e20f970d96e1122ad90cef8861a95174092c18ec1f04a1a181dc9981"
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 1374 (2022) — Clinical Laboratory Testing

Clinical Laboratory Testing; Exempting registered nurses from clinical laboratory personnel licensure requirements under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-37.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1374 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1374/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1374 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1374/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1374 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1374/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1374 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1374/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Health Policy — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-28** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-28** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/02/22, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-02** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-02** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-03** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-03** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2022-02-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/21/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-21** CS/CS by Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-23** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-23** Now in Rules
- **2022-02-23** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/01/22, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-03-01** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-03** 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. 2022-37

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26c4cbbd-8cf3-407b-abee-29a35f584d89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).