---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental Insurance Claims"
description: "Dental Insurance Claims; Prohibiting a contract between a health insurer and a dentist from containing certain restrictions on payment methods; prohibiting a health insurer from charging a fee to transmit a payment to a dentist through Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfer unless the dentist has consented to such fee; prohibiting a health insurer from denying claims for procedures included in a prior authorization; prohibiting a contract between a prepaid limited health service organization and a dentist from containing certain restrictions on payment methods, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 892"
citation: "Florida SB 892 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-196"
primary_sponsors: ["Banking and Insurance", "Fiscal Policy", "Harrell"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-12"
last_action: "2024-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67bf73d4-52df-4771-989e-d9e3c1abb479"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/892/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7b9b55e5440c506240d816238e74a3a0de5022c45917926d6fb9e1e19558771b"
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 892 (2024) — Dental Insurance Claims

Dental Insurance Claims; Prohibiting a contract between a health insurer and a dentist from containing certain restrictions on payment methods; prohibiting a health insurer from charging a fee to transmit a payment to a dentist through Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfer unless the dentist has consented to such fee; prohibiting a health insurer from denying claims for procedures included in a prior authorization; prohibiting a contract between a prepaid limited health service organization and a dentist from containing certain restrictions on payment methods, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-196.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 892 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/892/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 892 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/892/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 892 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/892/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 892 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/892/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 892 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/892/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 892 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/892/BillText/e2/HTML)
7. **S 892 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/892/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government — primary (organization)
- Banking and Insurance — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Harrell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-12** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-04** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-02-01** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 02/06/24, 3:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-06** CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-08** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-08** 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
- **2024-02-08** CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
- **2024-02-13** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-15** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2024-02-15** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government read 1st time
- **2024-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-22** CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; 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
- **2024-02-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
- **2024-02-27** CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Amendment(s) adopted (328282)
- **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 018011 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 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** In returning messages
- **2024-03-07** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (018011)
- **2024-03-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-17** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-20** Chapter No. 2024-196

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67bf73d4-52df-4771-989e-d9e3c1abb479`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).