---
type: "Bill"
title: "Referral of Patients by Health Care Providers"
description: "Referral of Patients by Health Care Providers; Deleting the definitions of the terms “direct supervision” and “present in the office suite”; revising the definition of the term “referral” to remove reference to direct physician supervision and to require compliance with certain Medicare payment and coverage rules, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 768"
citation: "Florida SB 768 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-251"
primary_sponsors: ["Martin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17bbf056-1946-4a1c-bf2a-cd99209ec8e3"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/768/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9717c4013be48bc93a5679dd2f00d92360775cc9222420cf2c16b00782d7a733"
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 768 (2023) — Referral of Patients by Health Care Providers

Referral of Patients by Health Care Providers; Deleting the definitions of the terms “direct supervision” and “present in the office suite”; revising the definition of the term “referral” to remove reference to direct physician supervision and to require compliance with certain Medicare payment and coverage rules, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-251.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 768 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/768/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 768 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/768/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Martin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/20/23, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-20** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-21** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 04/12/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-12** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-12** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-04-20** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/25/23, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-25** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/23
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** In Messages
- **2023-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/1/2023)
- **2023-04-28** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-16** Chapter No. 2023-251

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17bbf056-1946-4a1c-bf2a-cd99209ec8e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).