---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Health"
description: "Department of Health ; Revising the repeal date of the definition of the term \"messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine\"; providing for contingent retroactive operation; requiring medical marijuana treatment centers to notify the Department of Health through e-mail within a specified timeframe after an actual or attempted theft, diversion, or loss of marijuana; revising eligibility criteria for licensure by endorsement under the MOBILE Act, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1299"
citation: "Florida HB 1299 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)", "(vetoed)", "torts"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-114"
primary_sponsors: ["Yarkosky"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96ab1f10-bd03-428f-979b-8de3bf38e9be"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1299/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5df77609c142b30db20e42f4dae84c0d3a5265e5adf7c29b2e05861c809b4119"
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 HB 1299 (2025) — Department of Health

Department of Health ; Revising the repeal date of the definition of the term "messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine"; providing for contingent retroactive operation; requiring medical marijuana treatment centers to notify the Department of Health through e-mail within a specified timeframe after an actual or attempted theft, diversion, or loss of marijuana; revising eligibility criteria for licensure by endorsement under the MOBILE Act, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-114.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1299 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1299/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1299 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1299/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1299 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1299/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1299 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1299/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1299 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1299/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Yarkosky — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Health Care Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Now in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
- **2025-03-25** PCS added to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-27** Favorable with CS by Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Reported out of Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
- **2025-03-28** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-28** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-31** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-11** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2025-04-15** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-17** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-17** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-17** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)
- **2025-04-17** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In Messages
- **2025-04-23** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-30** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-30** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-30** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 1270
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Amendment(s) adopted (340380)
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In Messages
- **2025-05-02** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-02** Amendment 340380 Concur
- **2025-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-02** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-03** Chapter No. 2025-114

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96ab1f10-bd03-428f-979b-8de3bf38e9be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).