---
type: "Bill"
title: "Treatment by a Medical Specialist"
description: "Treatment by a Medical Specialist; Authorizing firefighters, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and correctional probation officers to receive medical treatment by a medical specialist for certain conditions under certain circumstances; requiring firefighters, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and correctional probation officers to notify certain entities of their selection of a medical specialist, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 808"
citation: "Florida SB 808 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-209"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Criminal Justice", "DiCeglie"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-12-08"
last_action: "2024-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0163de6-e266-4305-bf16-89d803e2d4df"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/808/ByCategory"
source_hash: "881ca8f0ce1456ca242fb31d94c62db9abe29e0b9d8650a15a35d1126b27eeaa"
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 808 (2024) — Treatment by a Medical Specialist

Treatment by a Medical Specialist; Authorizing firefighters, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and correctional probation officers to receive medical treatment by a medical specialist for certain conditions under certain circumstances; requiring firefighters, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and correctional probation officers to notify certain entities of their selection of a medical specialist, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-209.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 808 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/808/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 808 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/808/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 808 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/808/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 808 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/808/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice — primary (person)
- DiCeglie — primary (person)
- Hooper — cosponsor (person)
- Osgood — cosponsor (person)
- Polsky — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-08** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-04** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-18** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/23/24, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-01-23** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-24** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-24** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2024-01-25** Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2024-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 02/13/24, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-02-13** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** Now in Appropriations
- **2024-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-02-22** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 16 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/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed; YEAS 38 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 2) `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 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-30** Chapter No. 2024-209

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0163de6-e266-4305-bf16-89d803e2d4df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).