---
type: "Bill"
title: "In-person Visitation"
description: "In-person Visitation; Citing this act as the “No Patient Left Alone Act”; requiring certain providers to establish visitation policies and procedures within a specified timeframe; authorizing the resident, client, or patient to designate an essential caregiver; requiring in-person visitation in certain circumstances; authorizing providers to suspend in-person visitation of specific visitors under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 988"
citation: "Florida SB 988 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-34"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Garcia", "Health Policy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-11-18"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74e138ab-14d9-429e-ab7f-423c623af19e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e01c2a1873fad587cfcf7d8c3246ed8d54ad470be906d2fd485238a46d6de8c7"
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 988 (2022) — In-person Visitation

In-person Visitation; Citing this act as the “No Patient Left Alone Act”; requiring certain providers to establish visitation policies and procedures within a specified timeframe; authorizing the resident, client, or patient to designate an essential caregiver; requiring in-person visitation in certain circumstances; authorizing providers to suspend in-person visitation of specific visitors under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-34.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 988 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 988 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 988 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 988 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 988 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Garcia — primary (person)
- Health Policy — primary (person)
- Berman — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-18** Filed `filing`
- **2021-12-13** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/13/22, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-18** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-18** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2022-01-18** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2022-01-28** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/02/22, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-02** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-02** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/28/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-28** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2022-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/22
- **2022-03-02** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Amendment(s) adopted (826924)
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** 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 (Engrossed 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 115, NAYS 2 `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. 2022-34

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74e138ab-14d9-429e-ab7f-423c623af19e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).