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Bill	Reproductive Health	Reproductive Health; Requiring the Department of Health to immediately suspend the license of certain health care practitioners under certain circumstances; defining the term “pelvic examination”; prohibiting health care practitioners and certain students from performing a pelvic examination on a patient without first obtaining the written consent of the patient or the patient’s legal representative; establishing the criminal offense of reproductive battery, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 698	Florida SB 698 (2020)	bill		enacted	2020-31	Book	6	39	6	2019-10-29	2020-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/01bced0f-99a0-4127-8472-aebd60badd19	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/698/ByCategory	618b4624b8cfb2309703cb2bdc910c2400906c2c7b0df2c43f1bb2479f1479f6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 698 (2020) — Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health; Requiring the Department of Health to immediately suspend the license of certain health care practitioners under certain circumstances; defining the term “pelvic examination”; prohibiting health care practitioners and certain students from performing a pelvic examination on a patient without first obtaining the written consent of the patient or the patient’s legal representative; establishing the criminal offense of reproductive battery, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-31.

Version chain

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

1. S 698 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 698 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 698 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 698 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 698 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 698 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower
• Returning Messages — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Book — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-10-29 Filed filing
• 2019-11-18 Referred to Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Rules referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-02-06 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/11/20, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-02-11 Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-12 Now in Criminal Justice
• 2020-02-13 On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/18/20, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2020-02-18 CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
• 2020-02-19 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-02-19 Now in Rules
• 2020-02-19 CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
• 2020-02-21 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/20, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-02-26 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
• 2020-02-28 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-03-02 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-03-02 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2020-03-02 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/20
• 2020-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-04 Amendment(s) adopted (714748)
• 2020-03-04 Ordered engrossed
• 2020-03-04 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-05 CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-05 In Messages
• 2020-03-09 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Received
• 2020-03-10 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
• 2020-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Amendment(s) adopted (167817) -HJ 1067, 1068
• 2020-03-10 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-11 CS passed as amended; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-11 In returning messages
• 2020-03-12 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (167817)
• 2020-03-12 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-12 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
• 2020-06-03 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-18 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-19 Chapter No. 2020-31

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01bced0f-99a0-4127-8472-aebd60badd19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).