republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/hb-531.md

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Bill	Public Education of Background Screening Requirements	Public Education of Background Screening Requirements; Requires AHCA, in conjunction with specified agencies, to develop & maintain care provider background screening education & awareness webpage; provides requirements for resources provided on webpage; requires that specified agencies provide link to webpage on their respective websites & promote inclusion of link in certain media; requires that webpage be active by specified date & reviewed & updated annually.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	HB 531	Florida HB 531 (2025)	bill	labor	enacted	2025-118	Hunschofsky Trabulsy	4	50	2	2025-02-11	2025-06-05	openstates	ocd-bill/5a1c7979-6af0-4ab7-8228-8e5fbb71d5e9	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/531/ByCategory	350fccffabee2f8f7e4c14f7babd2e84bd18db7e4709c5199d9a98042269c240	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 531 (2025) — Public Education of Background Screening Requirements

Public Education of Background Screening Requirements; Requires AHCA, in conjunction with specified agencies, to develop & maintain care provider background screening education & awareness webpage; provides requirements for resources provided on webpage; requires that specified agencies provide link to webpage on their respective websites & promote inclusion of link in certain media; requires that webpage be active by specified date & reviewed & updated annually.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-118.

Version chain

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

1. H 531 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 531 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 531 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 531 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 107–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Health Care Budget Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Human Services Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Hunschofsky — primary (person)
• Trabulsy — primary (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Salzman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-11 Filed filing
• 2025-02-19 Referred to Human Services Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Now in Human Services Subcommittee
• 2025-03-04 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2025-03-07 Added to Human Services Subcommittee agenda
• 2025-03-11 Favorable with CS by Human Services Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11 Reported out of Human Services Subcommittee
• 2025-03-11 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2025-03-11 CS Filed filing
• 2025-03-12 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2025-03-12 Referred to Health Care Budget Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-03-12 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-03-12 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2025-03-12 Now in Health Care Budget Subcommittee
• 2025-03-28 Added to Health Care Budget Subcommittee agenda
• 2025-04-07 PCS added to Health Care Budget Subcommittee agenda
• 2025-04-09 Favorable with CS by Health Care Budget Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09 Reported out of Health Care Budget Subcommittee
• 2025-04-09 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2025-04-09 CS Filed filing
• 2025-04-09 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2025-04-10 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
• 2025-04-21 Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
• 2025-04-22 Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-22 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
• 2025-04-22 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2025-04-22 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-22 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2025)
• 2025-04-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-25 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-25 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-25 CS passed; YEAS 107, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-25 In Messages
• 2025-04-25 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2025-04-25 Received enrolled
• 2025-04-28 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2025-04-28 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-28 Substituted for CS/SB 614
• 2025-04-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-28 CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-28 In Messages
• 2025-04-28 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-02 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-04 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-05 Chapter No. 2025-118

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5a1c7979-6af0-4ab7-8228-8e5fbb71d5e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).