---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Innovation"
description: "Health Care Innovation; Creating the Health Care Innovation Council within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; requiring the council to submit annual reports to the Governor and the Legislature; requiring the department to administer a revolving loan program for applicants seeking to implement certain health care innovations in this state; authorizing the department to contract with a third party to administer the program, including loan servicing, and manage the revolving loan fund, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 7018"
citation: "Florida SB 7018 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-16"
primary_sponsors: ["Health Policy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-12-04"
last_action: "2024-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f259e5b0-5c8b-4a5a-b6bf-869e3b2f49dd"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7018/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2bc2ad4f8d33f0cf5e8ca3e5ed94803f9e02b1bf8c755b963fff9ba4a4c61898"
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 7018 (2024) — Health Care Innovation

Health Care Innovation; Creating the Health Care Innovation Council within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; requiring the council to submit annual reports to the Governor and the Legislature; requiring the department to administer a revolving loan program for applicants seeking to implement certain health care innovations in this state; authorizing the department to contract with a third party to administer the program, including loan servicing, and manage the revolving loan fund, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-16.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 7018 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7018/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 7018 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7018/BillText/pb/HTML)
3. **S 7018 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7018/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 7018 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7018/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–1** (pass) · lower
- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Health Policy — primary (person)
- Harrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-04** Submitted for consideration by Health Policy
- **2023-12-04** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 12/12/23, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-12-12** Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2023-12-13** Filed `filing`
- **2023-12-14** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/11/24, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-11** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-01-16** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/18/24
- **2024-01-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-18** Amendment(s) adopted (497010)
- **2024-01-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-18** Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-01-18** Immediately certified
- **2024-01-18** In Messages
- **2024-02-15** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
- **2024-02-15** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** Substituted for CS/HB 1501
- **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** Passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Ordered 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. 2024-16

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f259e5b0-5c8b-4a5a-b6bf-869e3b2f49dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).