---
type: "Bill"
title: "Drowning Prevention"
description: "Drowning Prevention; Revising the purpose of the Swimming Lesson Voucher Program; revising the age requirements for children receiving a voucher through the program; requiring the Department of Health to develop educational materials on drowning prevention safety measures and safe bathing practices for specified purposes; requiring hospitals, birth centers, and home birth providers to provide the educational materials to new parents and caregivers as part of their postpartum education and care, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 428"
citation: "Florida SB 428 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-38"
primary_sponsors: ["Yarborough"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-11-07"
last_action: "2026-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15469487-7c83-4177-8e96-2dae83dc3bf2"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/428/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e6bba65301169251f76fd2ef3826b5c8d794ad9a94461b3698a50426a719d577"
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 428 (2026) — Drowning Prevention

Drowning Prevention; Revising the purpose of the Swimming Lesson Voucher Program; revising the age requirements for children receiving a voucher through the program; requiring the Department of Health to develop educational materials on drowning prevention safety measures and safe bathing practices for specified purposes; requiring hospitals, birth centers, and home birth providers to provide the educational materials to new parents and caregivers as part of their postpartum education and care, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-38.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 428 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/428/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 428 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/428/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 428 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/428/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yarborough — primary (person)
- Berman — cosponsor (person)
- Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Massullo — cosponsor (person)
- Sharief — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-07** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-01** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-15** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/20/26, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-01-20** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-21** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2026-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/04/26, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-04** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-04** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-12** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/25/26
- **2026-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-25** Amendment(s) adopted (667490, 768758)
- **2026-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** Passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-25** In Messages
- **2026-03-05** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-05** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/9/2026)
- **2026-03-05** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Passed; YEAS 108, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-22** Chapter No. 2026-38

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15469487-7c83-4177-8e96-2dae83dc3bf2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).