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| Bill | Paid Family Leave Insurance | Paid Family Leave Insurance; Authorizes life insurers to transact paid family leave insurance; provides circumstances under which paid family leave insurance may be issued & purchased under paid family leave insurance policy; provides circumstances under which family leave insurance benefits may be provided; requires that paid family leave insurance policies specify details & requirements relating to covered circumstances; specifies requirements for policies relating to benefit periods, waiting periods, benefit amounts, certain offsets, & payment of benefits; provides that eligibility for family leave insurance benefits may be limited, excluded, or reduced, but any such limitation, exclusion, or reduction must be specified in policy; provides circumstances under which limitations, exclusions, & reductions are permissible; provides applicable provisions for calculating rates; provides that paid family leave insurance forms & riders are subject to review by OIR; specifies means by which policy must offer family leave insurance benefits. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2023 | HB 721 | Florida HB 721 (2023) |
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enacted | 2023-149 |
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Florida HB 721 (2023) — Paid Family Leave Insurance
Paid Family Leave Insurance; Authorizes life insurers to transact paid family leave insurance; provides circumstances under which paid family leave insurance may be issued & purchased under paid family leave insurance policy; provides circumstances under which family leave insurance benefits may be provided; requires that paid family leave insurance policies specify details & requirements relating to covered circumstances; specifies requirements for policies relating to benefit periods, waiting periods, benefit amounts, certain offsets, & payment of benefits; provides that eligibility for family leave insurance benefits may be limited, excluded, or reduced, but any such limitation, exclusion, or reduction must be specified in policy; provides circumstances under which limitations, exclusions, & reductions are permissible; provides applicable provisions for calculating rates; provides that paid family leave insurance forms & riders are subject to review by OIR; specifies means by which policy must offer family leave insurance benefits.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-149.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- H 721 Filed (filed) — source
- H 721 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 721 c2 (committee substitute) — source
- H 721 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Insurance & Banking Subcommittee) — 16–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Appropriations Committee) — 26–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Chaney — primary (person)
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Insurance & Banking Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Leek — cosponsor (person)
- McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-02-10 Filed
filing - 2023-02-21 Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2023-02-21 Referred to Appropriations Committee
referral-committee - 2023-02-21 Referred to Commerce Committee
referral-committee - 2023-02-21 Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- 2023-03-07 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
filing, reading-1 - 2023-03-10 Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- 2023-03-14 Favorable with CS by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-03-15 Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- 2023-03-15 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2023-03-15 CS Filed
filing - 2023-03-16 Referred to Appropriations Committee
referral-committee - 2023-03-16 Referred to Commerce Committee
referral-committee - 2023-03-16 Now in Appropriations Committee
- 2023-03-16 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
reading-1 - 2023-03-24 Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
- 2023-03-28 Favorable by Appropriations Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-03-28 Reported out of Appropriations Committee
- 2023-03-28 Now in Commerce Committee
- 2023-04-06 Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- 2023-04-11 Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee (Amended)
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-04-13 Reported out of Commerce Committee
- 2023-04-13 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2023-04-13 CS Filed
filing - 2023-04-13 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2023-04-13 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2023)
- 2023-04-13 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
reading-1 - 2023-04-20 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2023-04-20 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2023-04-20 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-04-20 CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0
passage - 2023-04-20 In Messages
- 2023-04-21 Referred to Fiscal Policy
referral-committee - 2023-04-25 Received
enrolled - 2023-05-01 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy
withdrawal - 2023-05-01 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2023-05-01 Substituted for CS/SB 670
- 2023-05-01 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2023-05-01 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-05-01 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
passage - 2023-05-01 In Messages
- 2023-05-01 Ordered enrolled
enrolled - 2023-05-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2023-05-25 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2023-05-26 Chapter No. 2023-149
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6489e47b-d099-4b39-97f2-eb538b8be10d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).