---
type: "Bill"
title: "Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screenings"
description: "Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screenings; Requiring certain hospitals to administer congenital cytomegalovirus screenings on newborns admitted to the hospital under specified circumstances; providing coverage under the Medicaid program for the screenings and any medically necessary follow-up reevaluations; requiring that newborns diagnosed with congenital cytomegalovirus be referred to a primary care physician for medical management, treatment, and follow-up services, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 168"
citation: "Florida SB 168 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public health"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-164"
primary_sponsors: ["Health Policy", "Polsky"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-10-11"
last_action: "2024-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b11100a-0b55-40bb-b3bf-11f5a3d767fd"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/168/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d6f0737ea30f5755f02075f9f4a4fe7c22c02fd6f2fb1980f846c1e0678dd13d"
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 168 (2024) — Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screenings

Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screenings; Requiring certain hospitals to administer congenital cytomegalovirus screenings on newborns admitted to the hospital under specified circumstances; providing coverage under the Medicaid program for the screenings and any medically necessary follow-up reevaluations; requiring that newborns diagnosed with congenital cytomegalovirus be referred to a primary care physician for medical management, treatment, and follow-up services, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-164.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 168 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/168/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 168 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/168/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 168 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/168/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health Policy — primary (person)
- Polsky — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-11** Filed `filing`
- **2023-10-17** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-18** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/23/24, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-23** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-24** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-24** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2024-01-25** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2024-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/08/24, 10:45 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-08** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2024-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-22** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered 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. 2024-164

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b11100a-0b55-40bb-b3bf-11f5a3d767fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).