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type: "Bill"
title: "Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations"
description: "Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations ; Providing an exception to the requirement that the Department of Children and Families immediately forward certain allegations to a law enforcement agency; requiring such allegations to be immediately forwarded to a law enforcement agency upon completion of the department's investigation; requiring a child protective investigator to inform the subject of an investigation of a certain duty; requiring Child Protection Teams to consult with a licensed physician or advanced practice registered nurse with certain experience when evaluating certain reports; requiring the physician or advanced practice registered nurse who performed certain medical examinations to submit a written report to the department and certain persons within a specified timeframe, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 47"
citation: "Florida HB 47 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-165"
primary_sponsors: ["Bartleman", "Maney"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 47
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-09-26"
last_action: "2026-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a431cdde-b2d4-4e04-8f6b-77aff946c6f3"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/47/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b698568f2280332703975cd4f7d31b841b2b93d120330cdceba02089c2a2cc97"
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 47 (2026) — Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations
Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations ; Providing an exception to the requirement that the Department of Children and Families immediately forward certain allegations to a law enforcement agency; requiring such allegations to be immediately forwarded to a law enforcement agency upon completion of the department's investigation; requiring a child protective investigator to inform the subject of an investigation of a certain duty; requiring Child Protection Teams to consult with a licensed physician or advanced practice registered nurse with certain experience when evaluating certain reports; requiring the physician or advanced practice registered nurse who performed certain medical examinations to submit a written report to the department and certain persons within a specified timeframe, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-165.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 47 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/47/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 47 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/47/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 47 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/47/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 47 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/47/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 47 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/47/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **1090** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **340** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bartleman — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Human Services Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Maney — primary (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Daniels — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Gerwig — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Partington — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Tendrich — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-09-26** Filed `filing`
- **2025-10-07** Referred to Human Services Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-07** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-07** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-07** Now in Human Services Subcommittee
- **2026-01-13** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-01-26** Added to Human Services Subcommittee agenda
- **2026-01-28** Favorable with CS by Human Services Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-29** Reported out of Human Services Subcommittee
- **2026-01-29** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2026-01-29** CS Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-30** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2026-01-30** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2026-01-30** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-02-03** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2026-02-03** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2026-02-06** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2026-02-10** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-11** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2026-02-11** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2026-02-11** CS Filed `filing`
- **2026-02-11** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2026-02-12** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-02-12** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2026)
- **2026-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-03** Amendment 691295 adopted
- **2026-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-03** In Messages
- **2026-03-03** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-03** Received `enrolled`
- **2026-03-05** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2026-03-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-03-05** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 42
- **2026-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-05** In Messages
- **2026-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-26** Chapter No. 2026-165
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a431cdde-b2d4-4e04-8f6b-77aff946c6f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).