republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-7085.md

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Bill	Sickle Cell Disease	Sickle Cell Disease; Creates Sickle Cell Disease Research & Treatment Grant Program within DOH; specifies types of projects eligible for grant funding; revises sickle cell disease & sickle cell trait screening requirements; requires screening providers to notify newborn's parent or guardian, rather than newborn's primary care physician, of certain information; authorizes certain persons other than newborns who have been identified having sickle cell disease or carrying sickle cell trait to choose to be included in registry.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 7085	Florida HB 7085 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-225	Driskell Skidmore	2	23	2	2024-02-22	2024-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/583b628b-7fa5-4706-9482-fff362164eee	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7085/ByCategory	b472fb68bb1da65d8154f4b0e5b5533366ca8fa7715a4ef851da733d91b5ad30	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 7085 (2024) — Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle Cell Disease; Creates Sickle Cell Disease Research & Treatment Grant Program within DOH; specifies types of projects eligible for grant funding; revises sickle cell disease & sickle cell trait screening requirements; requires screening providers to notify newborn's parent or guardian, rather than newborn's primary care physician, of certain information; authorizes certain persons other than newborns who have been identified having sickle cell disease or carrying sickle cell trait to choose to be included in registry.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-225.

Version chain

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

1. H 7085 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 7085 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Driskell — primary (person)
• Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
• Skidmore — primary (person)
• Bankson — cosponsor (person)
• Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• Berfield — cosponsor (person)
• Botana — cosponsor (person)
• Canady — cosponsor (person)
• Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
• Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Mooney — cosponsor (person)
• Salzman — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
• Valdés — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-22 Filed filing
• 2024-02-22 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-02-22 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/27/2024)
• 2024-02-22 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-02-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-28 In Messages
• 2024-02-28 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Withdrawn from Appropriations withdrawal
• 2024-03-06 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-06 Substituted for SB 7070
• 2024-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-06 In Messages
• 2024-03-06 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-05-21 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-31 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-06-03 Chapter No. 2024-225; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/SB 1582 (Ch. 2024-246)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/583b628b-7fa5-4706-9482-fff362164eee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).