republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2022/sb-988.md

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Bill	In-person Visitation	In-person Visitation; Citing this act as the “No Patient Left Alone Act”; requiring certain providers to establish visitation policies and procedures within a specified timeframe; authorizing the resident, client, or patient to designate an essential caregiver; requiring in-person visitation in certain circumstances; authorizing providers to suspend in-person visitation of specific visitors under certain circumstances, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2022	SB 988	Florida SB 988 (2022)	bill		enacted	2022-34	Appropriations Garcia Health Policy	5	34	5	2021-11-18	2022-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/74e138ab-14d9-429e-ab7f-423c623af19e	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/ByCategory	e01c2a1873fad587cfcf7d8c3246ed8d54ad470be906d2fd485238a46d6de8c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 988 (2022) — In-person Visitation

In-person Visitation; Citing this act as the “No Patient Left Alone Act”; requiring certain providers to establish visitation policies and procedures within a specified timeframe; authorizing the resident, client, or patient to designate an essential caregiver; requiring in-person visitation in certain circumstances; authorizing providers to suspend in-person visitation of specific visitors under certain circumstances, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-34.

Version chain

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

1. S 988 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 988 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 988 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 988 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 988 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 115–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Appropriations — primary (person)
• Garcia — primary (person)
• Health Policy — primary (person)
• Berman — cosponsor (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-11-18 Filed filing
• 2021-12-13 Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-10 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/13/22, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-01-11 Introduced introduction
• 2022-01-13 CS by Health Policy; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
• 2022-01-18 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2022-01-18 Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
• 2022-01-18 CS by Health Policy read 1st time
• 2022-01-28 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/02/22, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-02-02 Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
• 2022-02-02 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 18 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, 03/04/22
• 2022-03-02 CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
• 2022-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-04 Amendment(s) adopted (826924)
• 2022-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-03-04 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 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; YEAS 115, NAYS 2 passage
• 2022-03-10 Ordered enrolled
• 2022-04-05 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2022-04-06 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-08 Chapter No. 2022-34

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74e138ab-14d9-429e-ab7f-423c623af19e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).