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type: "Bill"
title: "Agency for Health Care Administration"
description: "Agency for Health Care Administration; Revises certain duties of AHCA relating to reporting, oversight, licensure inspections, issuance of licenses, & Medicaid fraud investigations; removes annual assessment on health care entities; removes provisions relating to multiphasic testing centers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 731"
citation: "Florida HB 731 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare", "regulation of professions and occupations", "insurance", "public health", "executive branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-156"
primary_sponsors: ["Perez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 43
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-11-21"
last_action: "2020-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05445afd-53cc-40dd-8cae-cda2bff95a0c"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/731/ByCategory"
source_hash: "871991149a598b13ca752905fe30d50534be8e7e528fb58e9cf001ecf0439fd0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---
# Florida HB 731 (2020) — Agency for Health Care Administration
Agency for Health Care Administration; Revises certain duties of AHCA relating to reporting, oversight, licensure inspections, issuance of licenses, & Medicaid fraud investigations; removes annual assessment on health care entities; removes provisions relating to multiphasic testing centers.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-156.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 731 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/731/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 731 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/731/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 731 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/731/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 731 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/731/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 731 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/731/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 731 e3** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/731/BillText/e3/PDF)
7. **H 731 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/731/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **150** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **9020** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **10014** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Appropriations Committee) — **243** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health Market Reform Subcommittee) — **111** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Perez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-11-21** Filed `filing`
- **2019-12-16** Referred to Health Market Reform Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Health Market Reform Subcommittee, 02/04/20, 8:00 am, Mashburn Hall
- **2020-02-04** CS by Health Market Reform Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 1
- **2020-02-07** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-07** Original reference(s) removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-02-07** CS referred to Appropriations Committee; Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-07** Now in Appropriations Committee
- **2020-02-07** CS by Health Market Reform Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-02-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee, 02/18/20, 11:30 am, Webster Hall
- **2020-02-18** Favorable by Appropriations Committee; YEAS 24 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/26/20, 9:00 am, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-26** CS/CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-28** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-03-02** CS/CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (399477, 455657)
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** Amendment(s) adopted (138983)
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 90 NAYS 20 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-10** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-10** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1726
- **2020-03-10** Received
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Amendment(s) adopted (419896)
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** In returning messages
- **2020-03-12** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (419896)
- **2020-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 100 NAYS 14 `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. 2020-156
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05445afd-53cc-40dd-8cae-cda2bff95a0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).