---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Health"
description: "Department of Health; Prohibits certain research relating to enhanced potential pandemic pathogens; provides requirement for researchers applying for state or local funding; prohibits medical marijuana treatment centers from producing certain marijuana products; provides requirements for marijuana packaging & labeling, medical marijuana treatment center advertising, & medical marijuana testing laboratories & employee background screening; provides requirements for live birth, death, & fetal death records & marriage licenses & certain dissolution-of-marriage records; revises requirements for applicants for certification or recertification as EMT or paramedic; exempts certain applicants for certification as certified nursing assistant from portion of competency examination; revises scope of practice for audiologists & hearing aid specialists; revises membership requirements for members of Board of Hearing Aid Specialists."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1387"
citation: "Florida HB 1387 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-71"
primary_sponsors: ["Porras"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 53
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-03-03"
last_action: "2023-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26904d59-c071-47de-a1de-0372b1fcccd4"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1387/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f4b412cd0150f502351ebf213417e8a84db52f3d3268fd55c677e4e0cdfadd91"
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 1387 (2023) — Department of Health

Department of Health; Prohibits certain research relating to enhanced potential pandemic pathogens; provides requirement for researchers applying for state or local funding; prohibits medical marijuana treatment centers from producing certain marijuana products; provides requirements for marijuana packaging & labeling, medical marijuana treatment center advertising, & medical marijuana testing laboratories & employee background screening; provides requirements for live birth, death, & fetal death records & marriage licenses & certain dissolution-of-marriage records; revises requirements for applicants for certification or recertification as EMT or paramedic; exempts certain applicants for certification as certified nursing assistant from portion of competency examination; revises scope of practice for audiologists & hearing aid specialists; revises membership requirements for members of Board of Hearing Aid Specialists.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-71.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1387 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1387/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1387 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1387/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1387 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1387/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1387 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1387/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1387 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1387/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 1387 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1387/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **93–14** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **29–11** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Porras — primary (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-03** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2023-03-30** Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-04-03** Favorable with CS by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2023-04-04** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-04** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-05** Original reference removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-04-05** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2023-04-05** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-06** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2023-04-10** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-11** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2023-04-11** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-11** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-12** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-12** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-12** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-25** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/28/2023)
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Amendment 537621 adopted
- **2023-04-28** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 93, NAYS 14 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** In Messages
- **2023-04-28** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-28** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-04** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-04** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1506
- **2023-05-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-04** Amendment(s) adopted (336516, 509046)
- **2023-05-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** In Messages
- **2023-05-04** Added to Senate Message List
- **2023-05-04** Amendment 336516 Concur
- **2023-05-04** Amendment 509046 Refuse to Concur
- **2023-05-04** Refused to concur, requested Senate to recede
- **2023-05-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** In returning messages
- **2023-05-04** Receded from 1 amendment(s) (509046)
- **2023-05-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 29 NAYS 11 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** In Messages
- **2023-05-04** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-12** Chapter No. 2023-71

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26904d59-c071-47de-a1de-0372b1fcccd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).