republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2020/sb-404.md

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Bill	Abortion	Abortion; Reclassifying the criminal offense for a specified violation; prohibiting physicians from performing or inducing the termination of the pregnancy of a minor unless specified requirements are satisfied; requiring a physician to obtain written consent from a minor’s parent or legal guardian before performing or inducing a termination of the pregnancy of a minor; providing exceptions to such consent requirement; providing criminal penalties for physicians, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 404	Florida SB 404 (2020)	bill	domestic relations judicial branch public health	enacted	2020-147	Stargel	5	39	9	2019-09-30	2020-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e105931e-c502-4c14-a3c1-21497f42bea9	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/404/ByCategory	a6a964bb59d9b5bd92a4d6a742f45ad45c1e0d300a5fee0b57703e38db41e019	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 404 (2020) — Abortion

Abortion; Reclassifying the criminal offense for a specified violation; prohibiting physicians from performing or inducing the termination of the pregnancy of a minor unless specified requirements are satisfied; requiring a physician to obtain written consent from a minor’s parent or legal guardian before performing or inducing a termination of the pregnancy of a minor; providing exceptions to such consent requirement; providing criminal penalties for physicians, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-147.

Version chain

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

1. S 404 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 404 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 404 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 404 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 404 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• A - 800009, Adoption, Second Reading — 41–74 (fail) · lower
• Third Reading — 23–17 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 75–43 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 9–7 (pass) · upper
• A - 329461, Adoption, Second Reading — 43–70 (fail) · lower
• A - 841177, Adoption, Second Reading — 45–71 (fail) · lower
• A - 252905, Adoption, Second Reading — 47–70 (fail) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 6–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stargel — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-09-30 Filed filing
• 2019-10-15 Referred to Health Policy; Judiciary; Rules referral-committee
• 2019-11-05 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 11/12/19, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building --Amendment(s) Adopted - Temporarily Postponed
• 2019-12-02 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 12/10/19, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2019-12-10 CS by Health Policy; YEAS 6 NAYS 3
• 2019-12-11 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2019-12-13 Now in Judiciary
• 2020-01-10 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/15/20, 10:15 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-14 CS by Health Policy read 1st time
• 2020-01-15 Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 3 NAYS 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-15 Now in Rules
• 2020-01-17 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/22/20, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-01-22 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 9 NAYS 7
• 2020-01-24 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-01-24 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-01-27 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2020-01-27 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/20
• 2020-01-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-01-29 Amendment(s) failed (197648, 207366, 237978, 343056, 363704, 380726, 386300, 393252, 404156, 407778, 454474, 456390, 458018, 458694, 467392, 532410, 581924, 754024, 771568, 880790, 909932, 927186, 938934, 969342) -SJ 202, 207, 210, 211, 212, 213
• 2020-01-29 Amendment(s) adopted (115836, 694892) -SJ 209, 213
• 2020-01-29 Ordered engrossed
• 2020-01-29 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-02-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-02-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 17 passage
• 2020-02-12 In Messages
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
• 2020-02-13 Received
• 2020-02-19 Substituted for HB 265
• 2020-02-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-02-19 Amendment(s) failed (252905, 329461, 341595, 357437, 568471, 584395, 723957, 800009, 841177, 852719, 899143, 956239, 960011, 969025) -HJ 592, 597
• 2020-02-19 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-02-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-02-20 CS passed; YEAS 75 NAYS 43 passage
• 2020-02-26 Ordered enrolled
• 2020-06-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-30 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-01 Chapter No. 2020-147

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e105931e-c502-4c14-a3c1-21497f42bea9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).