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Bill	Genetic Information for Insurance Purposes	Genetic Information for Insurance Purposes; Prohibits life insurers & long-term care insurers from canceling, limiting, or denying coverage, or establishing differentials in premium rates based on genetic information; prohibits such insurers from taking certain actions relating to genetic information for any insurance purpose.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	HB 1189	Florida HB 1189 (2020)	bill	insurance	enacted	2020-159	Sprowls Williamson	3	31	5	2020-01-09	2020-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/cc1d223d-fd23-4bd6-8a0b-b7bb60bbad2b	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1189/ByCategory	6c6cc0e8dc92a9039835b9c85a1db26e7f9f163ef258d3821c7ab49ba2c5fc7d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 1189 (2020) — Genetic Information for Insurance Purposes

Genetic Information for Insurance Purposes; Prohibits life insurers & long-term care insurers from canceling, limiting, or denying coverage, or establishing differentials in premium rates based on genetic information; prohibits such insurers from taking certain actions relating to genetic information for any insurance purpose.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-159.

Version chain

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

1. H 1189 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 1189 e1 (engrossed) — source
3. H 1189 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage — 110–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage, Third Reading — 117–1 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Commerce Committee) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 35–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Sprowls — primary (person)
• Williamson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-09 Filed filing
• 2020-01-13 Referred to Health and Human Services Committee; Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 01/16/20, 12:30 pm, Morris Hall
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-16 Favorable by Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-16 Now in Commerce Committee
• 2020-01-21 On Committee agenda-- Commerce Committee, 01/23/20, 9:30 am, Webster Hall
• 2020-01-23 Favorable by- Commerce Committee; YEAS 21 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-23 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-01-23 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/20
• 2020-01-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-01-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-01-29 Passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 1 passage
• 2020-02-05 In Messages
• 2020-02-10 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2020-02-12 Received
• 2020-03-10 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2020-03-10 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-03-10 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1564
• 2020-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Amendment(s) adopted (624566)
• 2020-03-10 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-11 Passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 3 passage
• 2020-03-11 In returning messages
• 2020-03-12 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (624566)
• 2020-03-12 Passed as amended; YEAS 110 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-12 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
• 2020-06-17 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-30 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-01 Chapter No. 2020-159

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cc1d223d-fd23-4bd6-8a0b-b7bb60bbad2b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).