---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Facilities"
description: "Health Facilities; Revising the definition of the term “health facility” to include other entities and associations organized not for profit; revising the powers of health facilities authorities to include the power to issue certain loans and execute related loan agreements; specifying requirements for projects financed by loan agreements issued by a health facilities authority; authorizing, rather than requiring, a hospital to perform a confirmation test under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 68"
citation: "Florida SB 68 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-179"
primary_sponsors: ["Martin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-11-25"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ef06a46-15da-4b35-ae18-92842f2d07bd"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/68/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a34a683d636b0120e4b15375ff8df93d827944d672f071cf5c03419053052342"
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 68 (2025) — Health Facilities

Health Facilities; Revising the definition of the term “health facility” to include other entities and associations organized not for profit; revising the powers of health facilities authorities to include the power to issue certain loans and execute related loan agreements; specifying requirements for projects financed by loan agreements issued by a health facilities authority; authorizing, rather than requiring, a hospital to perform a confirmation test under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-179.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 68 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/68/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 68 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/68/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 68 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/68/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 68 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/68/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **23–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Health Policy — primary (organization)
- Martin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-25** Filed `filing`
- **2025-01-15** Referred to Community Affairs; Health Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/03/25, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-03** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Now in Health Policy
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-25** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-26** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-27** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/01/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-01** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/25
- **2025-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-28** Amendment(s) adopted (667234)
- **2025-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-28** 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 (Engrossed 1) `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 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered 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. 2025-179, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 1195 (Ch. 2025-19)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ef06a46-15da-4b35-ae18-92842f2d07bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).