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type: "Bill"
title: "Genetic Counseling"
description: "Genetic Counseling; Creating the “Genetic Counseling Workforce Act”; providing licensure, licensure renewal, and continuing education requirements; requiring the Department of Health to adopt by rule continuing education requirements; prohibiting the licensing of a genetic counselor from being contingent on his or her participation in counseling that conflicts with his or her deeply held moral or religious beliefs; revising the definition of the term “health care practitioner” to include licensed genetic counselors, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1770"
citation: "Florida SB 1770 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["executive branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-133"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-26"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd56695c-fcdd-4f11-a01c-09625b5267f4"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1770/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a3adfbeeba3309bdcbb53aa4eee6169a794c6e87d752f9d87d0ba1259d827359"
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 SB 1770 (2021) — Genetic Counseling
Genetic Counseling; Creating the “Genetic Counseling Workforce Act”; providing licensure, licensure renewal, and continuing education requirements; requiring the Department of Health to adopt by rule continuing education requirements; prohibiting the licensing of a genetic counselor from being contingent on his or her participation in counseling that conflicts with his or her deeply held moral or religious beliefs; revising the definition of the term “health care practitioner” to include licensed genetic counselors, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-133.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 1770 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1770/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1770 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1770/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1770 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1770/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1770 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1770/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **364** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1161** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **90** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jones — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-26** Filed `filing`
- **2021-03-04** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-19** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/24/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-24** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-25** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-25** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2021-03-29** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-04-22** Withdrawn from Appropriations; Rules `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/26/21
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Amendment(s) adopted (303892, 967780)
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** 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. 2021-133
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd56695c-fcdd-4f11-a01c-09625b5267f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).