---
type: "Bill"
title: "Stem Cell Therapy"
description: "Stem Cell Therapy; Authorizing physicians to perform stem cell therapy not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration under certain circumstances; requiring physicians to include a specified notice in any form of advertisement; requiring physicians to obtain a signed consent form from the patient or his or her representative before performing the therapy, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1768"
citation: "Florida SB 1768 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-185"
primary_sponsors: ["Trumbull"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ba2f8ee-6014-4a19-b692-19cae3ec8cce"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1768/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9cde4d45fb03a4b63b99dfa6bc6cbcdd3195e04b1c747e07cad044b308ba2121"
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 1768 (2025) — Stem Cell Therapy

Stem Cell Therapy; Authorizing physicians to perform stem cell therapy not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration under certain circumstances; requiring physicians to include a specified notice in any form of advertisement; requiring physicians to obtain a signed consent form from the patient or his or her representative before performing the therapy, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-185.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1768 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1768/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1768 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1768/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1768 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1768/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1768 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1768/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1768 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1768/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **22–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Health Policy — primary (organization)
- Rules — primary (organization)
- Trumbull — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-28** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-07** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 04/01/25, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-01** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-03** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-03** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2025-04-03** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2025-04-07** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 04/10/25, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-10** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 7 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-11** Now in Rules
- **2025-04-11** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/16/25, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-16** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 22 NAYS 1
- **2025-04-18** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/23/25
- **2025-04-22** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** 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 (Committee Substitute 2) `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 660139 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 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In returning messages
- **2025-05-01** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (660139)
- **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. 2025-185

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ba2f8ee-6014-4a19-b692-19cae3ec8cce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).