---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Provider Accountability"
description: "Health Care Provider Accountability; Revises rights of licensed nursing home facility residents; creates cause of action for ex parte temporary injunction against continued unlicensed activity; authorizes ACHA to provide records to local law enforcement & state attorneys' offices; provides standard of care requirements for office surgeries; prohibits certain office surgeries; provides physician, office, & procedure requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1471"
citation: "Florida HB 1471 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)", "labor"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-307"
primary_sponsors: ["Busatta Cabrera"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 54
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-03-03"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d2bf8f5-b7e2-47da-b765-4d83ca55fa6f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1471/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c03fea63bcff4abc1c697d78729ad271f0e8c2302e84e93a19839aef932f4b15"
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 1471 (2023) — Health Care Provider Accountability

Health Care Provider Accountability; Revises rights of licensed nursing home facility residents; creates cause of action for ex parte temporary injunction against continued unlicensed activity; authorizes ACHA to provide records to local law enforcement & state attorneys' offices; provides standard of care requirements for office surgeries; prohibits certain office surgeries; provides physician, office, & procedure requirements.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-307.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1471 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1471/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1471 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1471/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1471 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1471/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1471 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1471/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1471 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1471/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 1471 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1471/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Busatta Cabrera — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — 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
- **2023-03-24** Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-28** Favorable with CS by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2023-03-29** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-03-29** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-03-30** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-04-10** Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-04-12** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-12** Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-04-12** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2023-04-13** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2023-04-17** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2023-04-18** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-18** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-18** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-19** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-19** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Amendment 960375 adopted
- **2023-04-25** Amendment 910361 adopted as amended
- **2023-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-03** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-03** Substituted for CS/SB 1596
- **2023-05-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-03** Amendment(s) adopted (483930)
- **2023-05-03** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** In Messages
- **2023-05-04** Added to Senate Message List
- **2023-05-04** Amendment 483930 Concur
- **2023-05-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-28** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-29** Chapter No. 2023-307

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2d2bf8f5-b7e2-47da-b765-4d83ca55fa6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).