---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nonprofit Agricultural Organization Medical Benefit Plans"
description: "Nonprofit Agricultural Organization Medical Benefit Plans; Defining the term “nonprofit agricultural organization”; authorizing nonprofit agricultural organizations to provide medical benefit plans; specifying that such plans are not insurance for purposes of the Florida Insurance Code; prohibiting the nonprofit agricultural organization from marketing or selling a medical benefit plan through specified agents, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 480"
citation: "Florida SB 480 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-54"
primary_sponsors: ["DiCeglie"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-04"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad061cba-d435-4e99-b460-d011ee29aa95"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/480/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6ae3975be2ed54999a7ddaed13886f8aa70dbe43c8cee7932e843c5d1d318ff9"
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 480 (2025) — Nonprofit Agricultural Organization Medical Benefit Plans

Nonprofit Agricultural Organization Medical Benefit Plans; Defining the term “nonprofit agricultural organization”; authorizing nonprofit agricultural organizations to provide medical benefit plans; specifying that such plans are not insurance for purposes of the Florida Insurance Code; prohibiting the nonprofit agricultural organization from marketing or selling a medical benefit plan through specified agents, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-54.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 480 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/480/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 480 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/480/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 480 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/480/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 480 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/480/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **32–4** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **22–2** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Banking and Insurance — primary (organization)
- DiCeglie — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-04** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-20** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 03/03/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 03/10/25, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-10** CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-12** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2025-03-12** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/17/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-12** CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
- **2025-03-17** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 6 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/26/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-26** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 22 NAYS 2
- **2025-03-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-27** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-03-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/03/25
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** CS passed; YEAS 32 NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-03** 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** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered 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. 2025-54

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad061cba-d435-4e99-b460-d011ee29aa95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).