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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health Care Practitioners and Massage Therapy"
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description: "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”."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "HB 197"
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citation: "Florida HB 197 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2024-148"
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primary_sponsors: ["Lopez, V."]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 47
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-10-17"
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last_action: "2024-05-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd19ce67-9b89-4537-9df4-6b5b29a706b2"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/197/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "4f26d4316363a1698cd3e54b7b8369cb1398d2a0fa355fd2321f5a1e3c9b5607"
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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 HB 197 (2024) — Health Care Practitioners and Massage Therapy
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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”.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-148.
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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. **H 197 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/197/BillText/Filed/PDF)
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2. **H 197 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/197/BillText/c1/PDF)
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3. **H 197 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/197/BillText/c2/PDF)
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4. **H 197 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/197/BillText/er/PDF)
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## Votes
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- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
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- Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee — primary (organization)
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- Lopez, V. — primary (person)
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- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
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- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
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- Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
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- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
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- Melo — cosponsor (person)
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- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
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- Roth — cosponsor (person)
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- Steele — cosponsor (person)
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- Woodson — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-10-17** Filed `filing`
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- **2023-11-02** Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `referral-committee`
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- **2023-11-02** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
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- **2023-11-02** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
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- **2023-11-02** Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
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- **2023-11-29** PCS added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
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- **2023-12-06** Favorable with CS by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-12-07** Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
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- **2023-12-07** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
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- **2023-12-07** CS Filed `filing`
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- **2023-12-11** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
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- **2023-12-11** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
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- **2023-12-11** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
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- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
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- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
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- **2024-01-16** Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
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- **2024-01-18** Favorable with CS by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-01-19** Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
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- **2024-01-19** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
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- **2024-01-19** CS Filed `filing`
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- **2024-01-22** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
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- **2024-01-22** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
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- **2024-01-22** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
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- **2024-02-06** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
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- **2024-02-08** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-02-08** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
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- **2024-02-08** Bill released to House Calendar
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- **2024-02-08** Added to Second Reading Calendar
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- **2024-02-12** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/15/2024)
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- **2024-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2024-02-15** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2024-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2024-02-15** CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2024-02-15** In Messages
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- **2024-02-16** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-20** Received `enrolled`
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- **2024-03-05** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
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- **2024-03-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2024-03-05** Substituted for CS/SB 896
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- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2024-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2024-03-05** In Messages
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- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2024-04-22** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2024-05-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2024-05-07** Chapter No. 2024-148
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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/dd19ce67-9b89-4537-9df4-6b5b29a706b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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