republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-855.md

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Bill	Dental Services	Dental Services; Requires dentists & certain partnerships, or corporations to designate with board dentist of record & provide information to certain patients; requires any individual, partnership, or corporation that provides dental services through telehealth to make available specified information; defines term “advertisement”; requires advertisements of dental services provided through telehealth to include specified disclaimer; provides requirements for initial examination for orthodontic appliances; defines "in-person examination."	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 855	Florida HB 855 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-214	Berfield McClure	3	37	2	2023-12-12	2024-05-30	openstates	ocd-bill/16eb9040-f771-44b4-91aa-1e233cfca88b	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/855/ByCategory	39b49801a24be610ea4819814c8af831b26f74b9990b52eb50ee184697465de7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 855 (2024) — Dental Services

Dental Services; Requires dentists & certain partnerships, or corporations to designate with board dentist of record & provide information to certain patients; requires any individual, partnership, or corporation that provides dental services through telehealth to make available specified information; defines term “advertisement”; requires advertisements of dental services provided through telehealth to include specified disclaimer; provides requirements for initial examination for orthodontic appliances; defines "in-person examination."

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-214.

Version chain

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

1. H 855 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 855 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 855 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 118–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Berfield — primary (person)
• Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
• McClure — primary (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
• Valdés — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-12 Filed filing
• 2023-12-27 Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-12-27 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2023-12-27 Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-12 Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-17 Favorable by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-17 Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
• 2024-01-17 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
• 2024-02-06 Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
• 2024-02-08 Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-09 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
• 2024-02-09 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-02-09 CS Filed filing
• 2024-02-09 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-02-12 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
• 2024-02-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-22 CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-22 In Messages
• 2024-02-23 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2024-03-04 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-04 Substituted for SB 302
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-04 In Messages
• 2024-03-04 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-05-21 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-29 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-30 Chapter No. 2024-214

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16eb9040-f771-44b4-91aa-1e233cfca88b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).