---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electrocardiograms for Student Athletes"
description: "Electrocardiograms for Student Athletes; Citing this act as the “Second Chance Act”; authorizing certain out-of-state licensed practitioners to conduct medical evaluations; requiring certain electrocardiograms to be administered in accordance with specified standards; requiring certain students to complete at least one electrocardiogram screening to participate in interscholastic athletic competition beginning in a specified school year; requiring the Florida High School Athletic Association to adopt bylaws and policies prohibiting students with abnormal electrocardiograms from participating in interscholastic athletic competition until a written medical clearance is submitted to the school, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1070"
citation: "Florida SB 1070 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-183"
primary_sponsors: ["Simon"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 46
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-24"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33e3de39-5251-4f21-887b-d68d04914735"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1070/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8dfd98d7d7b2e4d671f3e3acd29aea932dd9b881e9e64565263c938f8d93a828"
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 SB 1070 (2025) — Electrocardiograms for Student Athletes

Electrocardiograms for Student Athletes; Citing this act as the “Second Chance Act”; authorizing certain out-of-state licensed practitioners to conduct medical evaluations; requiring certain electrocardiograms to be administered in accordance with specified standards; requiring certain students to complete at least one electrocardiogram screening to participate in interscholastic athletic competition beginning in a specified school year; requiring the Florida High School Athletic Association to adopt bylaws and policies prohibiting students with abnormal electrocardiograms from participating in interscholastic athletic competition until a written medical clearance is submitted to the school, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-183.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1070 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1070/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1070 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1070/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1070 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1070/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1070 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1070/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 1070 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1070/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 1070 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1070/BillText/e2/HTML)
7. **S 1070 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1070/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Education Pre-K - 12 — primary (organization)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
- Health Policy — primary (organization)
- Simon — primary (person)
- Arrington — cosponsor (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-24** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-03** Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Health Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-11** CS by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-12** Now in Health Policy
- **2025-03-12** CS by Education Pre-K - 12 read 1st time
- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-18** CS/CS by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-20** Original reference(s) removed: Rules
- **2025-03-20** Remaining references corrected to Fiscal Policy
- **2025-03-20** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-03-26** CS/CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2025-03-28** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-04-02** CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-03** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- **2025-04-08** CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Amendment(s) adopted (851462)
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2025-04-29** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 279473 adopted
- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In returning messages
- **2025-05-01** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (279473)
- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** 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. 2025-183

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33e3de39-5251-4f21-887b-d68d04914735`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).