---
type: "Bill"
title: "Newborn Screenings"
description: "Newborn Screenings; Requiring hospitals and other state-licensed birthing facilities to test for congenital cytomegalovirus in newborns within a specified timeframe under certain circumstances; revising the timeframe in which health care providers attending home births must make certain referrals; requiring a newborn’s primary health care provider to refer the newborn for testing for congenital cytomegalovirus under certain circumstances; requiring that certain test results be reported to the Department of Health within a specified timeframe, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 292"
citation: "Florida SB 292 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-25"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Polsky"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-09-22"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3337d48-8a2e-4d04-be41-3c4c28e2471d"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/292/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8ff683757356253894b3b70d69e8a6dda36b1d4d72ec894d890f508217e18331"
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 292 (2022) — Newborn Screenings

Newborn Screenings; Requiring hospitals and other state-licensed birthing facilities to test for congenital cytomegalovirus in newborns within a specified timeframe under certain circumstances; revising the timeframe in which health care providers attending home births must make certain referrals; requiring a newborn’s primary health care provider to refer the newborn for testing for congenital cytomegalovirus under certain circumstances; requiring that certain test results be reported to the Department of Health within a specified timeframe, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-25.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 292 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/292/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 292 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/292/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 292 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/292/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Polsky — primary (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-22** Filed `filing`
- **2021-10-13** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-25** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 11/03/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-11-03** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-04** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 01/19/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-19** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-21** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/09/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-09** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-14** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-14** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-16** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-02-28** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/02/22
- **2022-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** In Messages
- **2022-03-07** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/8/2022)
- **2022-03-07** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-10** 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. 2022-25

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3337d48-8a2e-4d04-be41-3c4c28e2471d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).