republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2021/hb-17.md

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Bill	Podiatric Medicine	Podiatric Medicine; Authorizes Board of Podiatric Medicine to require specified number of continuing education hours related to safe & effective prescribing of controlled substances; provides for governance of podiatric physicians who are supervising medical assistants.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2021	HB 17	Florida HB 17 (2021)	bill	insurance	enacted	2021-136	Bell Killebrew	3	36	4	2020-11-30	2021-06-23	openstates	ocd-bill/c34c08f4-ebb7-454b-b67c-50291f92b056	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/17/ByCategory	21399adf5b3f704105b06f986faee635f784cb3ab5d188a869de958c0597ea09	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 17 (2021) — Podiatric Medicine

Podiatric Medicine; Authorizes Board of Podiatric Medicine to require specified number of continuing education hours related to safe & effective prescribing of controlled substances; provides for governance of podiatric physicians who are supervising medical assistants.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-136.

Version chain

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

1. H 17 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 17 e1 (engrossed) — source
3. H 17 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Professions & Public Health Subcommittee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bell — primary (person)
• Killebrew — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-11-30 Filed filing
• 2021-01-15 Referred to Professions and Public Health Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2021-03-01 Added to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee agenda
• 2021-03-02 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
• 2021-03-03 Favorable by Professions & Public Health Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-03 Reported out of Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
• 2021-03-03 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
• 2021-03-05 Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
• 2021-03-09 Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-09 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
• 2021-03-09 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2021-03-09 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2021-03-25 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/31/2021)
• 2021-03-26 Amendment 536577 filed
• 2021-03-31 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-03-31 Amendment 536577 adopted
• 2021-03-31 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2021-03-31 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2021-04-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-01 Passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 passage
• 2021-04-07 In Messages
• 2021-04-07 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2021-04-07 Message sent to senate
• 2021-04-07 Received
• 2021-04-08 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2021-04-08 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2021-04-08 Substituted for CS/SB 170
• 2021-04-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-04-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-08 Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2021-04-08 Immediately certified
• 2021-04-08 In Messages
• 2021-04-08 Ordered enrolled
• 2021-06-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2021-06-21 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-06-23 Chapter No. 2021-136

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c34c08f4-ebb7-454b-b67c-50291f92b056. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).