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type: "Bill"
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title: "In-person Visitation"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2022"
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identifier: "SB 988"
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citation: "Florida SB 988 (2022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2022-34"
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primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Garcia", "Health Policy"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 34
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2021-11-18"
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last_action: "2022-04-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74e138ab-14d9-429e-ab7f-423c623af19e"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "e01c2a1873fad587cfcf7d8c3246ed8d54ad470be906d2fd485238a46d6de8c7"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida SB 988 (2022) — In-person Visitation
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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.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-34.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **S 988 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 988 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 988 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/c2/HTML)
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4. **S 988 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/e1/HTML)
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5. **S 988 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/988/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **115–2** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Appropriations — primary (person)
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- Garcia — primary (person)
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- Health Policy — primary (person)
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- Berman — cosponsor (person)
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- Perry — cosponsor (person)
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- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-11-18** Filed `filing`
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- **2021-12-13** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/13/22, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2022-01-13** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
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- **2022-01-18** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2022-01-18** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
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- **2022-01-18** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
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- **2022-01-28** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/02/22, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
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- **2022-02-02** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
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- **2022-02-02** Now in Appropriations
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- **2022-02-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/28/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2022-02-28** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
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- **2022-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2022-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2022-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/22
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- **2022-03-02** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
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- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-03-04** Amendment(s) adopted (826924)
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- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2022-03-04** In Messages
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- **2022-03-07** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2022-03-07** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/8/2022)
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- **2022-03-07** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
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- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-03-08** Placed on 3rd reading
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- **2022-03-08** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 2 `passage`
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- **2022-03-10** Ordered enrolled
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- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
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- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-34
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74e138ab-14d9-429e-ab7f-423c623af19e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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