---
type: "Bill"
title: "Chiropractic Medicine"
description: "Chiropractic Medicine; Authorizes chiropractic physicians to use dry needling treatments for specified purposes; requires certain training & certification; requires Board of Chiropractic Medicine to certify certain applicants who provide specified credentials evaluation report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1063"
citation: "Florida HB 1063 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-269"
primary_sponsors: ["Hunschofsky"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-12-28"
last_action: "2024-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fef0764-cf8d-471f-aa48-d376857365e9"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1063/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f5052c260451171c534e94d413059ffaad1bc0672c7a5ef33c6be05049fd2564"
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 1063 (2024) — Chiropractic Medicine

Chiropractic Medicine; Authorizes chiropractic physicians to use dry needling treatments for specified purposes; requires certain training & certification; requires Board of Chiropractic Medicine to certify certain applicants who provide specified credentials evaluation report.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-269.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1063 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1063/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1063 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1063/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1063 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1063/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1063 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1063/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1063 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1063/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Hunschofsky — primary (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-28** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-22** Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-24** Favorable with CS by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-26** Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2024-01-26** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-26** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-01-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2024-02-15** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-15** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-15** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-15** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-16** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024)
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Amendment 584941 adopted
- **2024-02-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** In Messages
- **2024-02-29** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-05** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-05** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1474
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** In Messages
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-27** Chapter No. 2024-269

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fef0764-cf8d-471f-aa48-d376857365e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).