republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-197.md

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Bill	Health Care Practitioners and Massage Therapy	Health Care Practitioners and Massage Therapy; Requires DOH to report specified data; authorizes DOH to suspend license of certain health care practitioners & massage establishments in certain circumstances; revises advertising requirements for massage therapists & massage establishments; prohibits establishments from sheltering or harboring, or being used as sleeping quarters for any person; requires DOH investigators to request government identification from all employees while in massage establishment; specifies additional documents person operating massage establishment must present, upon request, to DOH investigators & law enforcement officers; requires DOH to notify federal immigration office if specified persons fail to provide government identification; revises definition of “unlicensed massage establishment”.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 197	Florida HB 197 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-148	Lopez, V.	4	47	2	2023-10-17	2024-05-07	openstates	ocd-bill/dd19ce67-9b89-4537-9df4-6b5b29a706b2	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/197/ByCategory	4f26d4316363a1698cd3e54b7b8369cb1398d2a0fa355fd2321f5a1e3c9b5607	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 197 (2024) — Health Care Practitioners and Massage Therapy

Health Care Practitioners and Massage Therapy; Requires DOH to report specified data; authorizes DOH to suspend license of certain health care practitioners & massage establishments in certain circumstances; revises advertising requirements for massage therapists & massage establishments; prohibits establishments from sheltering or harboring, or being used as sleeping quarters for any person; requires DOH investigators to request government identification from all employees while in massage establishment; specifies additional documents person operating massage establishment must present, upon request, to DOH investigators & law enforcement officers; requires DOH to notify federal immigration office if specified persons fail to provide government identification; revises definition of “unlicensed massage establishment”.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-148.

Version chain

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

1. H 197 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 197 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 197 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 197 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 118–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Lopez, V. — primary (person)
• Bankson — cosponsor (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia — cosponsor (person)
• Melo — cosponsor (person)
• Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
• Roth — cosponsor (person)
• Steele — cosponsor (person)
• Woodson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-10-17 Filed filing
• 2023-11-02 Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-02 Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-02 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2023-11-02 Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
• 2023-11-29 PCS added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-12-06 Favorable with CS by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-12-07 Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
• 2023-12-07 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-12-07 CS Filed filing
• 2023-12-11 Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-12-11 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2023-12-11 Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-16 Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-18 Favorable with CS by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-19 Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-01-19 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-19 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-22 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
• 2024-01-22 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2024-02-06 Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
• 2024-02-08 Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-08 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
• 2024-02-08 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-02-08 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-12 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/15/2024)
• 2024-02-15 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-15 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-15 CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-15 In Messages
• 2024-02-16 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2024-03-05 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-05 Substituted for CS/SB 896
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-05 In Messages
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-22 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-07 Chapter No. 2024-148

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd19ce67-9b89-4537-9df4-6b5b29a706b2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).