---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office Surgeries"
description: "Office Surgeries; Requiring medical offices performing specified office surgeries to demonstrate to the department that they have established financial responsibility in a specified manner; revising standards of practice for office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1561"
citation: "Florida HB 1561 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-181"
primary_sponsors: ["Busatta Cabrera"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f63b898-3461-4f1c-9d21-499d4952f729"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1561/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c96a1f105aee2cd321228fa35a39ab8eb263ae016f9994caffa868d76ada62a9"
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 1561 (2024) — Office Surgeries

Office Surgeries; Requiring medical offices performing specified office surgeries to demonstrate to the department that they have established financial responsibility in a specified manner; revising standards of practice for office

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-181.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1561 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1561/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1561 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1561/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1561 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1561/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 1561 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1561/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Busatta Cabrera — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2024-01-22** Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-24** Favorable by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2024-01-24** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-01-25** Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-29** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-01-29** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-20** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2024-02-22** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-23** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-23** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024)
- **2024-02-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Temporarily postponed, on 3rd Reading
- **2024-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-01** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-04** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1188
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Amendment(s) adopted (565294)
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-05** Added to Senate Message List
- **2024-03-05** Amendment 565294 Concur
- **2024-03-05** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-25** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-10** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-13** Chapter No. 2024-181

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f63b898-3461-4f1c-9d21-499d4952f729`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).