republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-644.md

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Bill	Rural Emergency Hospitals	Rural Emergency Hospitals; Subjecting rural emergency hospitals to certain requirements for the provision of emergency services and care; defining the terms “rural emergency hospital” and “rural emergency services”; authorizing qualifying hospitals to apply to the Agency for Health Care Administration for designation as a rural emergency hospital, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 644	Florida SB 644 (2024)	bill	social welfare	enacted	2024-201	Simon	3	31	5	2023-11-29	2024-05-29	openstates	ocd-bill/dc85005e-0c10-48c7-aa73-9c2c87270e35	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/644/ByCategory	1fa2c9f29a4ef260bfe4444861f32508be6365afd6133a1edf04dd2da55716ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 644 (2024) — Rural Emergency Hospitals

Rural Emergency Hospitals; Subjecting rural emergency hospitals to certain requirements for the provision of emergency services and care; defining the terms “rural emergency hospital” and “rural emergency services”; authorizing qualifying hospitals to apply to the Agency for Health Care Administration for designation as a rural emergency hospital, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-201.

Version chain

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

1. S 644 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 644 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 644 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
• Simon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-29 Filed filing
• 2023-12-13 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 Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-24 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 CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-12 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-12 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2024-02-13 CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
• 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 17 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-23 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-26 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
• 2024-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-28 In Messages
• 2024-02-28 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-03-04 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024)
• 2024-03-04 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-05 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-06 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-05-21 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-28 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-29 Chapter No. 2024-201

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dc85005e-0c10-48c7-aa73-9c2c87270e35. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).