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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Practitioner Discipline"
description: "Health Care Practitioner Discipline; Subjecting health care practitioners to disciplinary action for specified offenses; revising provisions relating to immediate suspension of licensure to apply to all health care practitioners; requiring the Department of Health to issue emergency orders to suspend health care practitioners licenses if they enter a criminal plea to, or are convicted or found guilty of, a felony relating to homicide or are arrested for committing or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit acts that would constitute violations of specified criminal offenses, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1934"
citation: "Florida SB 1934 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-190"
primary_sponsors: ["Book"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a4f6d97-d1cd-4d88-bb37-59cbaa8575e0"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1934/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5a45e2dc2c67a9e045aabad9189de06761fd8b5bc3f6c3ba3589f40aaac27c4a"
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 1934 (2021) — Health Care Practitioner Discipline
Health Care Practitioner Discipline; Subjecting health care practitioners to disciplinary action for specified offenses; revising provisions relating to immediate suspension of licensure to apply to all health care practitioners; requiring the Department of Health to issue emergency orders to suspend health care practitioners licenses if they enter a criminal plea to, or are convicted or found guilty of, a felony relating to homicide or are arrested for committing or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit acts that would constitute violations of specified criminal offenses, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-190.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 1934 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1934/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1934 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1934/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1934 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1934/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **1160** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **160** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **90** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **80** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Book — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-01** Filed `filing`
- **2021-03-04** Referred to Health Policy; Criminal Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-12** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/17/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-17** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Now in Criminal Justice
- **2021-03-18** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/23/21, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-23** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-24** Now in Rules
- **2021-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/16/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-16** CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2021-04-16** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-19** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-19** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/21/21
- **2021-04-20** CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-190
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a4f6d97-d1cd-4d88-bb37-59cbaa8575e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).