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Bill	Foreign Countries of Concern	Foreign Countries of Concern; Prohibiting laboratories from using certain operational or research software produced in or by a foreign country of concern, a state-owned enterprise of a foreign country of concern, or a company domiciled within a foreign country of concern; providing certain protections for licensees who fail to obtain assurances from a person or an entity that indirectly owns a controlling interest in the licensee or indirectly holds an interest in certain entities, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	SB 768	Florida SB 768 (2025)	bill		enacted	2025-96	Calatayud Judiciary	6	44	7	2025-02-14	2025-05-28	openstates	ocd-bill/28150d85-eaee-4b70-8088-d2cb058323cc	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/768/ByCategory	cb069fc7596edc79820bffd678315ddafd24e3ae5be3ab515d5239f85f984294	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 768 (2025) — Foreign Countries of Concern

Foreign Countries of Concern; Prohibiting laboratories from using certain operational or research software produced in or by a foreign country of concern, a state-owned enterprise of a foreign country of concern, or a company domiciled within a foreign country of concern; providing certain protections for licensees who fail to obtain assurances from a person or an entity that indirectly owns a controlling interest in the licensee or indirectly holds an interest in certain entities, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-96.

Version chain

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

1. S 768 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 768 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 768 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 768 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 768 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 768 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 24–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Calatayud — primary (person)
• Health Policy — primary (organization)
• Judiciary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-14 Filed filing
• 2025-02-28 Referred to Health Policy; Judiciary; Rules referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 Introduced introduction
• 2025-03-13 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-03-18 CS by Health Policy; YEAS 8 NAYS 1
• 2025-03-20 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-03-20 Now in Judiciary
• 2025-03-26 CS by Health Policy read 1st time
• 2025-03-27 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 04/01/25, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2025-04-01 CS/CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
• 2025-04-02 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-04-02 CS/CS by Judiciary read 1st time
• 2025-04-03 Now in Rules
• 2025-04-03 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/08/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-04-08 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-10 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/16/25
• 2025-04-16 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-16 Amendment(s) adopted (510594)
• 2025-04-16 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-16 CS passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-16 Immediately certified
• 2025-04-16 In Messages
• 2025-04-28 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2025-04-28 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
• 2025-04-28 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
• 2025-04-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-29 Amendment 652203 adopted
• 2025-04-29 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-29 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-29 CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-29 In returning messages
• 2025-05-01 Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (756034)
• 2025-05-01 Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (652203)
• 2025-05-01 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-05-01 In Messages
• 2025-05-02 Senate Message List
• 2025-05-02 Amendment 756034 Concur
• 2025-05-02 CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-05-02 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-23 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-27 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-28 Chapter No. 2025-96

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28150d85-eaee-4b70-8088-d2cb058323cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).