---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Debt"
description: "Medical Debt; Revises definition; provides exception to prohibition of facility engaging in extraordinary collection action to obtain payment for services for sale of certain debt."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 547"
citation: "Florida HB 547 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-98"
primary_sponsors: ["Partington"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-11"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38c77b03-e0cb-4adb-b5b6-fbe9032fcd8a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/547/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ad4ceac46df5d1c6c2279b36ce59a0e0f9cc0ce769217ad13eb49e0a400d7606"
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 547 (2025) — Medical Debt

Medical Debt; Revises definition; provides exception to prohibition of facility engaging in extraordinary collection action to obtain payment for services for sale of certain debt.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-98.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 547 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/547/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 547 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/547/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 547 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/547/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 547 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/547/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Partington — primary (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-11** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-19** Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** PCS added to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-27** Favorable with CS by Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Reported out of Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
- **2025-03-28** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-28** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-31** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-03-31** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2025-04-07** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-07** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-07** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025)
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Amendment 111771 adopted
- **2025-04-16** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-16** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-23** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-23** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 656
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In Messages
- **2025-04-23** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-28** Chapter No. 2025-98

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38c77b03-e0cb-4adb-b5b6-fbe9032fcd8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).