---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cardiac Emergencies"
description: "Cardiac Emergencies; Requires, rather than authorizing, school districts to provide training in basic first aid to certain students; provides requirements for such training; requires each public school to develop plan for urgent life-saving emergencies (PULSE) for specified purposes; & provides requirements for school, staff, & defibrillator use & storage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1607"
citation: "Florida HB 1607 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-67"
primary_sponsors: ["Rizo", "Yarkosky"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 54
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebbb294f-2bc5-4546-a5f2-fe6b6bca3961"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1607/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3f026a9f07f4638a9fb22d469245a721b9ef6d54890ae63b7520f241995e86fe"
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 1607 (2025) — Cardiac Emergencies

Cardiac Emergencies; Requires, rather than authorizing, school districts to provide training in basic first aid to certain students; provides requirements for such training; requires each public school to develop plan for urgent life-saving emergencies (PULSE) for specified purposes; & provides requirements for school, staff, & defibrillator use & storage.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-67.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1607 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1607/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1607 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1607/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1607 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1607/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 1607 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1607/BillText/e2/PDF)
5. **H 1607 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1607/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Education Administration Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Rizo — primary (person)
- Yarkosky — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Benarroch — cosponsor (person)
- Berfield — cosponsor (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Booth — cosponsor (person)
- Caruso — cosponsor (person)
- Casello — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Cobb — cosponsor (person)
- Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Driskell — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hodgers — cosponsor (person)
- Kendall — cosponsor (person)
- Kincart Jonsson — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Nix — cosponsor (person)
- Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Partington — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Sapp — cosponsor (person)
- Stark — 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 Education Administration Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Now in Education Administration Subcommittee
- **2025-03-25** PCS added to Education Administration Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-27** Favorable with CS by Education Administration Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Reported out of Education Administration 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 PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Now in PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee
- **2025-04-10** Added to PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-04-14** Favorable by PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Reported out of PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee
- **2025-04-14** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-15** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2025-04-17** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-17** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-17** 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** Amendment 190769 adopted
- **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 as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In Messages
- **2025-04-23** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-24** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-24** Substituted for CS/SB 430
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Amendment(s) adopted (365646)
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-30** Senate Message List
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 711907 adopted
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 365646 Concur
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In returning messages
- **2025-05-01** Concurred in House amendment(s) to Senate amendment(s) (711907)
- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** In Messages
- **2025-05-01** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-22** Chapter No. 2025-67

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ebbb294f-2bc5-4546-a5f2-fe6b6bca3961`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).