--- type: "Bill" title: "Department of Health" description: "Department of Health; Exempting environmental health technicians from certain certification requirements under certain circumstances; creating the Andrew John Anderson Pediatric Rare Disease Grant Program within the department for a specified purpose; providing that any health care practitioner present at a birth or responsible for primary care during the neonatal period has the primary responsibility of administering certain screenings; revising hearing loss screening requirements to include infants and toddlers; requiring the department to grant certain applicants 90 days to cure deficiencies with their medical marijuana treatment center license applications pursuant to a specified errors and omissions process, etc." jurisdiction: "us/states/fl" legislature: "Florida Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "SB 1582" citation: "Florida SB 1582 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" chapter_law: "2024-246" primary_sponsors: ["Fiscal Policy", "Health Policy", "Rodriguez"] version_count: 7 action_count: 41 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2024-01-05" last_action: "2024-06-19" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/745049b4-c07e-4f27-95c3-b582aa86e731" source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1582/ByCategory" source_hash: "f80876f460639d4710b38a081336f667990c58ae60357e9d4058b6c984e85dd5" 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 1582 (2024) — Department of Health Department of Health; Exempting environmental health technicians from certain certification requirements under certain circumstances; creating the Andrew John Anderson Pediatric Rare Disease Grant Program within the department for a specified purpose; providing that any health care practitioner present at a birth or responsible for primary care during the neonatal period has the primary responsibility of administering certain screenings; revising hearing loss screening requirements to include infants and toddlers; requiring the department to grant certain applicants 90 days to cure deficiencies with their medical marijuana treatment center license applications pursuant to a specified errors and omissions process, etc. **Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-246. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **S 1582 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1582/BillText/Filed/HTML) 2. **S 1582 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1582/BillText/c1/HTML) 3. **S 1582 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1582/BillText/c2/HTML) 4. **S 1582 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1582/BillText/c3/HTML) 5. **S 1582 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1582/BillText/e1/HTML) 6. **S 1582 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1582/BillText/e2/HTML) 7. **S 1582 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1582/BillText/er/HTML) ## Votes - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper - Returning Messages — **40–0** (pass) · upper - Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper - Third Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization) - Fiscal Policy — primary (person) - Health Policy — primary (person) - Rodriguez — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-01-05** Filed `filing` - **2024-01-10** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee` - **2024-01-10** Introduced `introduction` - **2024-02-01** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/06/24, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building - **2024-02-06** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 - **2024-02-07** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2024-02-08** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services - **2024-02-08** CS by Health Policy read 1st time - **2024-02-15** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/20/24, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building - **2024-02-20** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 - **2024-02-22** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2024-02-22** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/27/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building - **2024-02-22** Now in Fiscal Policy - **2024-02-27** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time - **2024-02-27** CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 - **2024-02-29** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2024-02-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading - **2024-02-29** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24 - **2024-02-29** CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time - **2024-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2024-03-01** Amendment(s) adopted (105952) - **2024-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2024-03-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 `passage` - **2024-03-01** In Messages - **2024-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar - **2024-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024) - **2024-03-04** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1` - **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2024-03-05** Amendment 413719 adopted - **2024-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3` - **2024-03-05** Added to Third Reading Calendar - **2024-03-06** Temporarily postponed, on 3rd Reading - **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2024-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage` - **2024-03-06** In returning messages - **2024-03-07** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (413719) - **2024-03-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage` - **2024-03-07** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled` - **2024-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt` - **2024-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature` - **2024-06-19** Chapter No. 2024-246, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7085 (Ch. 2024-225), CS/SB 7072 (Ch. 2024-247) ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/745049b4-c07e-4f27-95c3-b582aa86e731`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).