---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health and Human Services"
description: "Health and Human Services; Providing for the deposit and use of funds from the Dental Student Loan Repayment Program and the Florida Reimbursement Assistance for Medical Education Program, respectively, which are returned by a financial institution to the Department of Health; revising the cap on the grant award levels for continuum of care lead agencies designated by the State Office on Homelessness; authorizing area agencies on aging to carry forward a specified percentage of documented unexpended state funds, subject to certain conditions, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2518"
citation: "Florida SB 2518 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["conference committee"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-227"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-26"
last_action: "2024-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31cc3add-1ccc-4c44-9158-537b5592aca4"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/2518/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2ff91feaa85b5b851fa736c61fb16d84776df9368c6fff59c5eaa0923f3f51ef"
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 2518 (2024) — Health and Human Services

Health and Human Services; Providing for the deposit and use of funds from the Dental Student Loan Repayment Program and the Florida Reimbursement Assistance for Medical Education Program, respectively, which are returned by a financial institution to the Department of Health; revising the cap on the grant award levels for continuum of care lead agencies designated by the State Office on Homelessness; authorizing area agencies on aging to carry forward a specified percentage of documented unexpended state funds, subject to certain conditions, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-227.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 2518 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/2518/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 2518 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/2518/BillText/pb/HTML)
3. **S 2518 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/2518/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 2518 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/2518/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference Committee Report, Passage — **109–0** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-26** Submitted for consideration by Appropriations
- **2024-01-26** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 01/31/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-29** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/01/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled
- **2024-01-31** Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Appropriations; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-01** Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/07/24
- **2024-02-01** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-07** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-08** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-08** The Senate requests that the House pass the bill as passed by the Senate or agree to include the bill in the Budget Conference
- **2024-02-08** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-08** In Messages
- **2024-02-12** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-12** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/15/2024)
- **2024-02-12** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** Amendment 286973 adopted
- **2024-02-15** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-15** Passed as amended; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-15** Passed the Senate bill as amended by House and we accede to conference
- **2024-02-15** In returning messages
- **2024-02-26** Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Appropriations)
- **2024-02-26** Conference Committee appointed: Appropriations Conference Committee/Appropriations: Broxson (Chair), Albritton (At Large), Baxley (At Large), Book (At Large), Hutson (At Large), Mayfield (At Large), Perry (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee On Agriculture, Environment, And General Government/Agriculture and Natural Resources: Brodeur (Chair), Berman, Boyd, Garcia, Grall, Mayfield, Osgood, Polsky, Rodriguez, Trumbull, Albritton (At Large), Baxley (At Large), Book (At Large), Hutson (At Large), Perry (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee On Agriculture, Environment, And General Government/State Administration and Technology: Brodeur (Chair), Berman, Boyd, Garcia, Grall, Mayfield, Osgood, Polsky, Rodriguez, Trumbull, Albritton (At Large), Baxley (At Large), Book (At Large), Hutson (At Large), Perry (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee On Criminal And Civil Justice/Justice: Bradley (Chair), Baxley, Burgess, Hooper, Martin, Pizzo, Powell, Rouson, Torres, Yarborough, Albritton (At Large), Book (At Large), Hutson (At Large), Mayfield (At Large), Perry (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee On Education/Higher Education: Perry (Chair), Calatayud, Collins, Davis, Harrell, Hutson, Jones, Simon, Albritton (At Large), Baxley (At Large), Book (At Large), Mayfield (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee On Education/PreK-12: Perry (Chair), Calatayud, Collins, Davis, Harrell, Hutson, Jones, Simon, Albritton (At Large), Baxley (At Large), Book (At Large), Mayfield (At Large), Rouson (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee On Health And Human Services/Health Care: Harrell (Chair), Avila, Baxley, Book, Brodeur, Burgess, Burton, Davis, Garcia, Gruters, Rouson, Simon, Albritton (At Large), Hutson (At Large), Mayfield (At Large), Perry (At Large); Appropriations Conference Committee On Transportation, Tourism, And Economic Development/Infrastructure and Tourism: Hooper (Chair), DiCeglie, Stewart, Thompson, Trumbull, Wright, Yarborough, Albritton (At Large), Baxley (At Large), Book (At Large), Hutson (At Large), Mayfield (At Large), Perry (At Large), Rouson (At Large);
- **2024-02-26** Bill placed in Conference (Appropriations Conference Committee/Appropriations)
- **2024-02-26** Conference Committee appointed
- **2024-03-08** Conference Committee Report received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-08** Conference Committee Report adopted (243308)
- **2024-03-08** Passed as amended by Conference Committee Report; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-08** In Messages
- **2024-03-08** Conference Committee Report considered
- **2024-03-08** Amendment 243308 adopted
- **2024-03-08** Conference Committee Report adopted
- **2024-03-08** Passed as amended by Conference Committee Report; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-12** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-13** Chapter No. 2024-227, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 5001 (Ch. 2024-231), CS/SB 7016 (Ch. 2024-15)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31cc3add-1ccc-4c44-9158-537b5592aca4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).