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type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Services"
description: "Emergency Services; Removes limitation on number of red or red & white warning signals that certain vehicles may display; revises circumstances under which certain applicants for specified license are exempt from specified requirement; requires applicant seeking such exemption to submit sworn affidavit to DOH attesting to certain facts; revises number of counties that may be granted such exemption; prohibits licensed volunteer ambulance service from applying for, receiving funds under, or participating in certain grant programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1487"
citation: "Florida HB 1487 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-94"
primary_sponsors: ["Basabe"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31ca8c72-3159-41c8-8755-66703f3ebaa0"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1487/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7fe177d974400dac79f6296cb307edfca8465ac639e1bc1bc7a9d5d9de914245"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---
# Florida HB 1487 (2025) — Emergency Services
Emergency Services; Removes limitation on number of red or red & white warning signals that certain vehicles may display; revises circumstances under which certain applicants for specified license are exempt from specified requirement; requires applicant seeking such exemption to submit sworn affidavit to DOH attesting to certain facts; revises number of counties that may be granted such exemption; prohibits licensed volunteer ambulance service from applying for, receiving funds under, or participating in certain grant programs.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-94.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 1487 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1487/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1487 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1487/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1487 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1487/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1150** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Basabe — primary (person)
- Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Daniels — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-28** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Now in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
- **2025-04-01** PCS added to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with CS by Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Reported out of Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
- **2025-04-03** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-03** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-03** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-04** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-11** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2025-04-15** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-04-16** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-16** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In Messages
- **2025-04-23** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-24** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-24** Substituted for CS/SB 1644
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-24** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-23** Chapter No. 2025-94
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31ca8c72-3159-41c8-8755-66703f3ebaa0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).