republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-975.md

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Bill	Background Screenings and Certifications	Background Screenings and Certifications; Provides qualifications for person seeking certification as person with lived experience; requires continuum of care lead agencies to submit certain information to DCF for purposes of background screening; expands certain background screening requirements to apply to all health care practitioners; revises licensure, registration, or certification requirements for acupuncturists; optometrists; pharmacists; dentists; midwives; speech-language pathologists & audiologists; nursing home administrators; occupational therapists; respiratory therapists; dietitian/nutritionists; practitioners of orthotics, prosthetics, or pedorthics; electrologists; clinical laboratory personnel; medical physicists; genetic counselors; opticians; physical therapists; psychologists & school psychologists; clinical social workers, marriage & family therapists, & mental health counselors.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 975	Florida HB 975 (2024)	bill	appropriations criminal procedure and corrections labor regulation of professions and occupations social welfare	enacted	2024-243	Bell Campbell Trabulsy	6	50	3	2023-12-20	2024-06-17	openstates	ocd-bill/122d798a-7dc9-46c4-9398-90d1487c6326	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/975/ByCategory	8dc02965b78ff1baf5b4234ba39bfd2dae52a5c89b7eb981b44aab3a5259e83f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 975 (2024) — Background Screenings and Certifications

Background Screenings and Certifications; Provides qualifications for person seeking certification as person with lived experience; requires continuum of care lead agencies to submit certain information to DCF for purposes of background screening; expands certain background screening requirements to apply to all health care practitioners; revises licensure, registration, or certification requirements for acupuncturists; optometrists; pharmacists; dentists; midwives; speech-language pathologists & audiologists; nursing home administrators; occupational therapists; respiratory therapists; dietitian/nutritionists; practitioners of orthotics, prosthetics, or pedorthics; electrologists; clinical laboratory personnel; medical physicists; genetic counselors; opticians; physical therapists; psychologists & school psychologists; clinical social workers, marriage & family therapists, & mental health counselors.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-243.

Version chain

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

1. H 975 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 975 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 975 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 975 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. H 975 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. H 975 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 109–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bell — primary (person)
• Campbell — primary (person)
• Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
• Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Trabulsy — primary (person)
• Basabe — cosponsor (person)
• Cassel — cosponsor (person)
• Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Salzman — cosponsor (person)
• Tant — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-20 Filed filing
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 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 Care Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-02-02 Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-02-06 Favorable with CS by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-07 Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-02-07 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-02-07 CS Filed filing
• 2024-02-07 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-02-08 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
• 2024-02-20 PCS added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
• 2024-02-22 Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-22 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
• 2024-02-22 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-02-22 CS Filed filing
• 2024-02-22 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2024-02-23 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-02-23 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-26 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024)
• 2024-02-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Amendment 583751 adopted
• 2024-02-29 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-29 CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-29 In Messages
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2024-03-06 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-06 Substituted for SB 558
• 2024-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-06 Amendment(s) adopted (667080)
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-06 In Messages
• 2024-03-07 Added to Senate Message List
• 2024-03-07 Amendment 667080 Concur
• 2024-03-07 CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-07 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2024-06-07 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-14 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-06-17 Chapter No. 2024-243; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 1600 (Ch. 2024-274), CS/SB 7016 (Ch. 2024-15)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/122d798a-7dc9-46c4-9398-90d1487c6326. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).