---
type: "Bill"
title: "Improving Screening for and Treatment of Blood Clots"
description: "Improving Screening for and Treatment of Blood Clots; Requires hospitals with emergency departments to develop & implement policies & procedures & conduct training for rendering of appropriate medical attention for persons at risk of forming venous thromboembolisms; repeals provisions requiring DOH to contract with private entity to establish statewide venous thromboembolism registry at no cost to state; provides requirements for private entity; requires hospitals with emergency department, beginning on date certain, to regularly report certain information; requires department to require private entity to use nationally recognized platform to collect certain data; requires private entity to provide regular reports to department on such data; requires agency, by date certain, to provide to Governor & Legislature specified report; provides requirements for such report; provides applicability; revises requirements for certain annual inservice training for certified nursing assistants employed by nursing home facilities; revises training requirements for certain certified nursing assistants who may be delegated tasks in nursing home facilities; provides legislative findings; requires assisted living facilities to provide a consumer information pamphlet containing specified information to residents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1421"
citation: "Florida HB 1421 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-211"
primary_sponsors: ["Black"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 52
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba4cbe50-34a7-4f94-8885-79fed18ba8fb"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1421/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c7d60a3b05e1dcf785360ddd4830dd51287c5e689cfe73eafa212b38b3d5d1a2"
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 1421 (2025) — Improving Screening for and Treatment of Blood Clots

Improving Screening for and Treatment of Blood Clots; Requires hospitals with emergency departments to develop & implement policies & procedures & conduct training for rendering of appropriate medical attention for persons at risk of forming venous thromboembolisms; repeals provisions requiring DOH to contract with private entity to establish statewide venous thromboembolism registry at no cost to state; provides requirements for private entity; requires hospitals with emergency department, beginning on date certain, to regularly report certain information; requires department to require private entity to use nationally recognized platform to collect certain data; requires private entity to provide regular reports to department on such data; requires agency, by date certain, to provide to Governor & Legislature specified report; provides requirements for such report; provides applicability; revises requirements for certain annual inservice training for certified nursing assistants employed by nursing home facilities; revises training requirements for certain certified nursing assistants who may be delegated tasks in nursing home facilities; provides legislative findings; requires assisted living facilities to provide a consumer information pamphlet containing specified information to residents.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-211.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1421 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1421/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1421 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1421/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1421 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1421/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1421 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1421/BillText/c3/PDF)
5. **H 1421 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1421/BillText/e1/PDF)
6. **H 1421 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1421/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Black — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Health Care Budget Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Alvarez, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Alvarez, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Benarroch — cosponsor (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Booth — cosponsor (person)
- Botana — cosponsor (person)
- Bracy Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Canady — cosponsor (person)
- Casello — cosponsor (person)
- Cassel — cosponsor (person)
- Chamberlin — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Driskell — cosponsor (person)
- Esposito — cosponsor (person)
- Gantt — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzalez Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Grow — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Jacques — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- Kendall — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Maggard — cosponsor (person)
- Melo — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Nix — cosponsor (person)
- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Porras — cosponsor (person)
- Redondo — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Sapp — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Temple — cosponsor (person)
- Tendrich — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Tramont — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)
- Yeager — 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 Government Operations 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
- **2025-03-18** PCS added to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-20** Favorable with CS by Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** Reported out of Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
- **2025-03-21** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-21** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-24** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-24** Referred to Health Care Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Now in Health Care Budget Subcommittee
- **2025-04-07** Added to Health Care Budget Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-04-09** Favorable with CS by Health Care Budget Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10** Reported out of Health Care Budget Subcommittee
- **2025-04-10** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-10** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-11** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-11** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-21** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2025-04-22** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-22** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-22** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-22** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-22** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-22** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2025)
- **2025-04-22** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-25** Amendment 384139 adopted
- **2025-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-25** CS passed as amended; YEAS 110, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-25** In Messages
- **2025-04-25** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-28** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-28** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 890
- **2025-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-28** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-02** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-03** Chapter No. 2025-211

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba4cbe50-34a7-4f94-8885-79fed18ba8fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).