republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-168.md

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Bill	Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screenings	Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screenings; Requiring certain hospitals to administer congenital cytomegalovirus screenings on newborns admitted to the hospital under specified circumstances; providing coverage under the Medicaid program for the screenings and any medically necessary follow-up reevaluations; requiring that newborns diagnosed with congenital cytomegalovirus be referred to a primary care physician for medical management, treatment, and follow-up services, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 168	Florida SB 168 (2024)	bill	public health	enacted	2024-164	Health Policy Polsky	3	31	5	2023-10-11	2024-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/3b11100a-0b55-40bb-b3bf-11f5a3d767fd	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/168/ByCategory	d6f0737ea30f5755f02075f9f4a4fe7c22c02fd6f2fb1980f846c1e0678dd13d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 168 (2024) — Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screenings

Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screenings; Requiring certain hospitals to administer congenital cytomegalovirus screenings on newborns admitted to the hospital under specified circumstances; providing coverage under the Medicaid program for the screenings and any medically necessary follow-up reevaluations; requiring that newborns diagnosed with congenital cytomegalovirus be referred to a primary care physician for medical management, treatment, and follow-up services, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-164.

Version chain

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

1. S 168 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 168 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 168 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Health Policy — primary (person)
• Polsky — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-10-11 Filed filing
• 2023-10-17 Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-18 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/23/24, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-01-23 CS by Health Policy; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• 2024-01-24 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-01-24 CS by Health Policy read 1st time
• 2024-01-25 Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
• 2024-02-05 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/08/24, 10:45 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-08 Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-08 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2024-02-19 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-22 Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-23 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-27 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
• 2024-02-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-29 CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-29 In Messages
• 2024-03-01 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-03-01 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
• 2024-03-01 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-25 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-10 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-13 Chapter No. 2024-164

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b11100a-0b55-40bb-b3bf-11f5a3d767fd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).