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| Bill | Protection from Discrimination Based on Health Care Choices | Protection from Discrimination Based on Health Care Choices; Prohibiting business entities and governmental entities from requiring a person to provide certain documentation or requiring a COVID-19 test to gain access to, entry upon, or service from such entities or as a condition of contracting, hiring, promotion, or continued employment; prohibiting business and governmental entities from refusing to hire persons, discharging persons, depriving or attempting to deprive persons of employment opportunities, adversely affecting persons with respect to employment, or otherwise discriminating against any person based on knowledge or belief of a person’s vaccination or COVID-19 postinfection recovery status or failure to take a COVID-19 test; requiring such entities to provide exemptions and reasonable accommodations for religious and medical reasons, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2023 | SB 252 | Florida SB 252 (2023) |
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enacted | 2023-43 |
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Florida SB 252 (2023) — Protection from Discrimination Based on Health Care Choices
Protection from Discrimination Based on Health Care Choices; Prohibiting business entities and governmental entities from requiring a person to provide certain documentation or requiring a COVID-19 test to gain access to, entry upon, or service from such entities or as a condition of contracting, hiring, promotion, or continued employment; prohibiting business and governmental entities from refusing to hire persons, discharging persons, depriving or attempting to deprive persons of employment opportunities, adversely affecting persons with respect to employment, or otherwise discriminating against any person based on knowledge or belief of a person’s vaccination or COVID-19 postinfection recovery status or failure to take a COVID-19 test; requiring such entities to provide exemptions and reasonable accommodations for religious and medical reasons, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-43.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- S 252 Filed (filed) — source
- S 252 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- S 252 e1 (engrossed) — source
- S 252 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Favorable — 11–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — 13–5 (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — 29–6 (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — 84–31 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Burton — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-03-03 Filed
filing - 2023-03-06 Referred to Health Policy; Fiscal Policy
referral-committee - 2023-03-07 Introduced
introduction - 2023-03-30 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 04/04/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- 2023-04-04 Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-04-04 Now in Fiscal Policy
- 2023-04-17 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/20/23, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- 2023-04-20 CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 13 NAYS 5
- 2023-04-24 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- 2023-04-24 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2023-04-24 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/27/23
- 2023-04-25 CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- 2023-04-27 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2023-04-27 Amendment(s) adopted (611288)
- 2023-04-27 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-04-27 CS passed as amended; YEAS 29 NAYS 6
passage - 2023-04-27 In Messages
- 2023-05-01 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2023-05-01 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/2/2023)
- 2023-05-01 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
reading-1 - 2023-05-02 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2023-05-02 Placed on 3rd reading
reading-3 - 2023-05-02 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2023-05-03 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-05-03 CS passed; YEAS 84, NAYS 31
passage - 2023-05-03 Ordered enrolled
enrolled - 2023-05-09 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2023-05-11 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2023-05-12 Chapter No. 2023-43, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 238 (Ch. 2023-42)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebcc45d0-cc4a-4465-9589-991d64d3cd4a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).