---
type: "Bill"
title: "Parkinson's Disease"
description: "Parkinson's Disease; Establishes the Consortium for Parkinson's Disease Research within the University of South Florida; establishes the Parkinson's Disease Research Board; requires the board to direct the operations of the consortium and to annually adopt a plan for Parkinson's disease research; provides duties of the consortium director; provides research requirements for the plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1545"
citation: "Florida HB 1545 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-188"
primary_sponsors: ["Busatta"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 52
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61627c58-0d0c-4479-bd73-c87f13c6ecd2"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1545/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f823e285ad8fababf03a25e15660bad612c54c01a49ab7ab9ecdd618a2a073c7"
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 1545 (2025) — Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's Disease; Establishes the Consortium for Parkinson's Disease Research within the University of South Florida; establishes the Parkinson's Disease Research Board; requires the board to direct the operations of the consortium and to annually adopt a plan for Parkinson's disease research; provides duties of the consortium director; provides research requirements for the plan.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-188.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1545 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1545/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1545 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1545/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1545 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1545/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1545 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1545/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1545 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1545/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Busatta — primary (person)
- Health Care Budget Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-28** 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 Care Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** 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`
- **2025-04-09** Reported out of Health Care Budget Subcommittee
- **2025-04-09** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-09** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-11** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2025-04-15** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-15** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-15** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)
- **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 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In Messages
- **2025-04-23** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-29** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-29** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1800
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amendment(s) adopted (898642)
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** In Messages
- **2025-04-30** Senate Message List
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 898642 Concur
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-26** Chapter No. 2025-188

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61627c58-0d0c-4479-bd73-c87f13c6ecd2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).