---
type: "Bill"
title: "Refund of Overpayments Made by Patients"
description: "Refund of Overpayments Made by Patients; Requiring health care facility licensees to refund to the patient any overpayment within a specified timeframe; specifying that health care facility licensees who violate certain provisions are subject to administrative fines; requiring health care practitioners to refund to the patient any overpayment within a specified timeframe; revising the list of acts that constitute grounds for disciplinary actions for health care practitioners, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1808"
citation: "Florida SB 1808 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-48"
primary_sponsors: ["Burton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c7b1958-aee9-4a50-bf61-b697fe3aa8fc"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1808/ByCategory"
source_hash: "05c4a3ae823ff4d87676ee9438730431abf903f0059027fc6133d739c4101292"
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 1808 (2025) — Refund of Overpayments Made by Patients

Refund of Overpayments Made by Patients; Requiring health care facility licensees to refund to the patient any overpayment within a specified timeframe; specifying that health care facility licensees who violate certain provisions are subject to administrative fines; requiring health care practitioners to refund to the patient any overpayment within a specified timeframe; revising the list of acts that constitute grounds for disciplinary actions for health care practitioners, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-48.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1808 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1808/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1808 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1808/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1808 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1808/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1808 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1808/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## 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`
- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-18** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-20** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2025-03-26** 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 8 NAYS 0 `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 21 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-17** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-17** 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
- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **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; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-21** Chapter No. 2025-48

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9c7b1958-aee9-4a50-bf61-b697fe3aa8fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).