---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cancer Funding"
description: "Cancer Funding; Revising the purpose of the Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program; revising duties of the Department of Health under the program; creating the Cancer Connect Collaborative, a council, within the department for a specified purpose; requiring the collaborative to advise the department on the awarding of grants issued through the Cancer Innovation Fund; requiring the collaborative to review grant applications and make recommendations to the department for awarding grants upon the appropriation of funds to the fund, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 7072"
citation: "Florida SB 7072 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public health"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-247"
primary_sponsors: ["Fiscal Policy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c689f4e1-04cd-4a0d-b93d-064cdbbed58e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7072/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8c218ce8c9b32aaf79371c31ca163df9d445e9226939cb7f264f6621a5742677"
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 7072 (2024) — Cancer Funding

Cancer Funding; Revising the purpose of the Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program; revising duties of the Department of Health under the program; creating the Cancer Connect Collaborative, a council, within the department for a specified purpose; requiring the collaborative to advise the department on the awarding of grants issued through the Cancer Innovation Fund; requiring the collaborative to review grant applications and make recommendations to the department for awarding grants upon the appropriation of funds to the fund, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-247.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 7072 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7072/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 7072 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7072/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 7072 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7072/BillText/pb/HTML)
4. **S 7072 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7072/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 7072 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7072/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-15** Submitted for consideration by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **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** Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-21** Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-21** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-21** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-02-22** CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
- **2024-02-27** CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Amendment(s) adopted (517038)
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** 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** 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; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered 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. 2024-247, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 7078 (Ch. 2024-248), CS/CS/CS/SB 1582 (Ch. 2024-246)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c689f4e1-04cd-4a0d-b93d-064cdbbed58e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).