---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental Services"
description: "Dental Services; Requires dentists & certain partnerships, or corporations to designate with board dentist of record & provide information to certain patients; requires any individual, partnership, or corporation that provides dental services through telehealth to make available specified information; defines term “advertisement”; requires advertisements of dental services provided through telehealth to include specified disclaimer; provides requirements for initial examination for orthodontic appliances; defines \"in-person examination.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 855"
citation: "Florida HB 855 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-214"
primary_sponsors: ["Berfield", "McClure"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-12-12"
last_action: "2024-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16eb9040-f771-44b4-91aa-1e233cfca88b"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/855/ByCategory"
source_hash: "39b49801a24be610ea4819814c8af831b26f74b9990b52eb50ee184697465de7"
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 855 (2024) — Dental Services

Dental Services; Requires dentists & certain partnerships, or corporations to designate with board dentist of record & provide information to certain patients; requires any individual, partnership, or corporation that provides dental services through telehealth to make available specified information; defines term “advertisement”; requires advertisements of dental services provided through telehealth to include specified disclaimer; provides requirements for initial examination for orthodontic appliances; defines "in-person examination."

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-214.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 855 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/855/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 855 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/855/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 855 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/855/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berfield — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- McClure — primary (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-12** Filed `filing`
- **2023-12-27** Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-27** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-27** Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-12** Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-17** Favorable by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-17** Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
- **2024-01-17** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-06** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2024-02-08** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-09** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-09** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-12** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** In Messages
- **2024-02-23** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-04** Substituted for SB 302
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-30** Chapter No. 2024-214

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16eb9040-f771-44b4-91aa-1e233cfca88b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).