---
type: "Bill"
title: "Diabetes Research"
description: "Diabetes Research; Establishing the University of Florida Diabetes Institute within the University of Florida College of Medicine; authorizing the institute to administer statewide pilot programs; requiring the institute to maintain a secure repository for deidentified data; authorizing the institute to share deidentified data under certain conditions; authorizing the institute to convene a consortium, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 816"
citation: "Florida SB 816 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-121"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-09"
last_action: "2026-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b29084b-29e6-491c-942e-bc93c426267b"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/816/ByCategory"
source_hash: "fa7bdaedd799a3272c7494c67271c9ccca9c875b438b6b990289154bc3a0fc45"
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 816 (2026) — Diabetes Research

Diabetes Research; Establishing the University of Florida Diabetes Institute within the University of Florida College of Medicine; authorizing the institute to administer statewide pilot programs; requiring the institute to maintain a secure repository for deidentified data; authorizing the institute to share deidentified data under certain conditions; authorizing the institute to convene a consortium, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-121.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 816 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/816/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 816 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/816/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-09** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-16** Referred to Education Postsecondary; Appropriations Committee on Higher Education; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 01/13/26, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2026-01-13** Favorable by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Now in Appropriations Committee on Higher Education
- **2026-01-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Higher Education, 01/28/26, 3:45 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-01-28** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Higher Education; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-29** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-02** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/05/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-05** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-09** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/11/26
- **2026-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-11** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-11** In Messages
- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** Passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-12** Chapter No. 2026-121

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b29084b-29e6-491c-942e-bc93c426267b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).