---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals"
description: "Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals; Creating part VI of ch. 395, F.S., entitled “Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals”; authorizing hospitals to apply for a behavioral health teaching hospital designation beginning on a specified date; authorizing the agency to designate additional behavioral health teaching hospitals that meet the designation criteria; establishing a grant program within the agency for the purpose of funding designated behavioral health teaching hospitals; establishing the Florida Center for Behavioral Health Workforce within the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute for a specified purpose, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 330"
citation: "Florida SB 330 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["appropriations", "public health", "social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-12"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/015128d5-24b5-43d2-a880-fce84ba3490f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/330/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d6cff233ead15a090db00485abf2d911a775dab6447a0e243eaf928d274f8a9d"
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 330 (2024) — Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals

Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals; Creating part VI of ch. 395, F.S., entitled “Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals”; authorizing hospitals to apply for a behavioral health teaching hospital designation beginning on a specified date; authorizing the agency to designate additional behavioral health teaching hospitals that meet the designation criteria; establishing a grant program within the agency for the purpose of funding designated behavioral health teaching hospitals; establishing the Florida Center for Behavioral Health Workforce within the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute for a specified purpose, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-12.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 330 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/330/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 330 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/330/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 330 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/330/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 330 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/330/BillText/e2/HTML)
5. **S 330 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/330/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
- Boyd — primary (person)
- Rouson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/13/24, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-13** CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-15** Now in Appropriations
- **2024-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-02-20** CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
- **2024-02-22** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Amendment(s) adopted (844930)
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** 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 983673 adopted
- **2024-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **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
- **2024-03-06** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (983673)
- **2024-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-22** Chapter No. 2024-12

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/015128d5-24b5-43d2-a880-fce84ba3490f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).