---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sickle Cell Disease"
description: "Sickle Cell Disease; Creates Sickle Cell Disease Research & Treatment Grant Program within DOH; specifies types of projects eligible for grant funding; revises sickle cell disease & sickle cell trait screening requirements; requires screening providers to notify newborn's parent or guardian, rather than newborn's primary care physician, of certain information; authorizes certain persons other than newborns who have been identified having sickle cell disease or carrying sickle cell trait to choose to be included in registry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 7085"
citation: "Florida HB 7085 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-225"
primary_sponsors: ["Driskell", "Skidmore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-22"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/583b628b-7fa5-4706-9482-fff362164eee"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7085/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b472fb68bb1da65d8154f4b0e5b5533366ca8fa7715a4ef851da733d91b5ad30"
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 7085 (2024) — Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle Cell Disease; Creates Sickle Cell Disease Research & Treatment Grant Program within DOH; specifies types of projects eligible for grant funding; revises sickle cell disease & sickle cell trait screening requirements; requires screening providers to notify newborn's parent or guardian, rather than newborn's primary care physician, of certain information; authorizes certain persons other than newborns who have been identified having sickle cell disease or carrying sickle cell trait to choose to be included in registry.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-225.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 7085 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7085/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 7085 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7085/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Driskell — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Skidmore — primary (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Berfield — cosponsor (person)
- Botana — cosponsor (person)
- Canady — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-22** Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-22** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/27/2024)
- **2024-02-22** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** In Messages
- **2024-02-28** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-06** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-06** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-06** Substituted for SB 7070
- **2024-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** In Messages
- **2024-03-06** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Chapter No. 2024-225; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/SB 1582 (Ch. 2024-246)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/583b628b-7fa5-4706-9482-fff362164eee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).