republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2022/sb-768.md

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Bill	Department of Health	Department of Health; Revising the purpose of the department’s targeted outreach program for certain pregnant women; requiring the department to encourage high-risk pregnant women of unknown status to be tested for sexually transmissible diseases; removing the Children’s Medical Services office from parties required to coordinate in the development of local emergency management plans for special needs shelters; deleting a requirement that certain nursing program graduates complete a specified preparatory course; defining the terms “doctoral degree from an American Psychological Association accredited program” and “doctoral degree in psychology”, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2022	SB 768	Florida SB 768 (2022)	bill	public health regulation of professions and occupations torts	enacted	2022-71	Appropriations Health Policy Rodriguez	6	44	6	2021-11-02	2022-04-20	openstates	ocd-bill/4449a18e-ea20-47a2-90ad-39d939bb475a	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/768/ByCategory	324e01527b3d99b408a705d17187e5c681a84ee18f26ebe2d80cc3b5acaccdd3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 768 (2022) — Department of Health

Department of Health; Revising the purpose of the department’s targeted outreach program for certain pregnant women; requiring the department to encourage high-risk pregnant women of unknown status to be tested for sexually transmissible diseases; removing the Children’s Medical Services office from parties required to coordinate in the development of local emergency management plans for special needs shelters; deleting a requirement that certain nursing program graduates complete a specified preparatory course; defining the terms “doctoral degree from an American Psychological Association accredited program” and “doctoral degree in psychology”, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-71.

Version chain

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

1. S 768 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 768 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 768 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 768 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 768 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 768 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 118–0 (pass) · lower
• Returning Messages — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Appropriations — primary (person)
• Health Policy — primary (person)
• Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-11-02 Filed filing
• 2021-11-16 Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-11 Introduced introduction
• 2022-01-21 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/26/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-01-26 CS by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
• 2022-01-27 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2022-01-27 CS by Health Policy read 1st time
• 2022-01-28 Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
• 2022-02-11 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/16/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-02-16 Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
• 2022-02-16 Now in Appropriations
• 2022-02-23 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/28/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-02-28 CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
• 2022-03-02 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2022-03-02 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2022-03-02 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
• 2022-03-02 CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
• 2022-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-03 Amendment(s) adopted (335418, 840068) -SJ 569, 570
• 2022-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-03 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-03-03 In Messages
• 2022-03-07 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2022-03-07 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/8/2022)
• 2022-03-07 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
• 2022-03-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 523505 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 553945 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 338403 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 114035 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 115557 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 959881 not allowed for consideration
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 816737 adopted
• 2022-03-08 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2022-03-08 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2022-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-09 CS passed as amended; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-03-10 In returning messages
• 2022-03-10 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (816737)
• 2022-03-10 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-03-10 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
• 2022-04-05 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2022-04-20 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-20 Chapter No. 2022-71, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 566 (Ch. 2022-29)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4449a18e-ea20-47a2-90ad-39d939bb475a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).