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| Bill | Freestanding Emergency Departments | Freestanding Emergency Departments; Prohibits hospital-based off-campus emergency department from holding itself out to public as urgent care center; requires such departments to post signs containing specified statements; provides requirements for advertisement of such departments; requires AHCA & health insurers to post & annually update certain information on their websites. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2021 | HB 1157 | Florida HB 1157 (2021) |
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enacted | 2021-112 | 4 | 44 | 5 | 2021-02-19 | 2021-06-17 | openstates | ocd-bill/5dcd67c5-fa79-495e-a502-29ea4a3cac8f | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1157/ByCategory | 1b91cf5511af7495dde883d2153bc06afd1aed8aa1a5f986bddfe2b36f28a0a2 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 1157 (2021) — Freestanding Emergency Departments
Freestanding Emergency Departments; Prohibits hospital-based off-campus emergency department from holding itself out to public as urgent care center; requires such departments to post signs containing specified statements; provides requirements for advertisement of such departments; requires AHCA & health insurers to post & annually update certain information on their websites.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-112.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- H 1157 Filed (filed) — source
- H 1157 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 1157 e1 (engrossed) — source
- H 1157 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — 118–0 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 39–1 (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — 14–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Finance & Facilities Subcommittee) — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Health and Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-02-19 Filed
filing - 2021-02-28 Referred to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2021-02-28 Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2021-02-28 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
referral-committee - 2021-02-28 Now in Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
- 2021-03-02 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- 2021-03-04 Added to Finance & Facilities Subcommittee agenda
- 2021-03-08 Favorable by Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-03-08 Reported out of Finance & Facilities Subcommittee
- 2021-03-08 Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- 2021-03-16 Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- 2021-03-18 Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-03-18 Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- 2021-03-18 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- 2021-04-02 Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- 2021-04-06 Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee
- 2021-04-07 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- 2021-04-07 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- 2021-04-07 CS Filed
- 2021-04-07 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- 2021-04-08 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2021-04-08 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2021-04-08 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/15/2021)
- 2021-04-09 Amendment 335929 filed
- 2021-04-15 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-15 Amendment 335929 adopted
- 2021-04-15 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-15 CS passed as amended; YEAS 118, NAYS 0
passage - 2021-04-15 Immediately certified
- 2021-04-15 Message sent to senate
- 2021-04-15 In Messages
- 2021-04-19 Referred to Appropriations
referral-committee - 2021-04-20 Received
- 2021-04-26 Withdrawn from Appropriations
withdrawal - 2021-04-26 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2021-04-26 Substituted for CS/SB 1976
- 2021-04-26 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-26 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-26 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 1
passage - 2021-04-26 In Messages
- 2021-04-26 Ordered enrolled
- 2021-06-14 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- 2021-06-16 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2021-06-17 Chapter No. 2021-112
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5dcd67c5-fa79-495e-a502-29ea4a3cac8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).