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type: "Bill"
title: "Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association"
description: "Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to recover from the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association specified costs incurred by Medicaid; revising the exclusiveness of rights and remedies of the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan; revising services eligible for compensation under certain annual benefits under the plan; requiring family members of plan participants to continuously maintain certain health insurance coverage for the participant; revising requirements for the administration of assessments and appropriations dedicated to the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1668"
citation: "Florida SB 1668 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-127"
primary_sponsors: ["Burton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-09"
last_action: "2026-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42fbeefc-027b-4e3c-bdb4-a1f99a097a44"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1668/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5d442b3716f1806766b144141821985b8525bacb6c29baea5f6f33876e8135fd"
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 SB 1668 (2026) — Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association
Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to recover from the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association specified costs incurred by Medicaid; revising the exclusiveness of rights and remedies of the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan; revising services eligible for compensation under certain annual benefits under the plan; requiring family members of plan participants to continuously maintain certain health insurance coverage for the participant; revising requirements for the administration of assessments and appropriations dedicated to the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-127.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 1668 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1668/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1668 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1668/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1668 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1668/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1668 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1668/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1668 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1668/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **72** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **220** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1120** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **390** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **91** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **962** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government — primary (organization)
- Burton — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-09** Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-16** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-23** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 01/28/26, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-01-28** Favorable by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 9 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-28** Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2026-02-20** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 02/25/26, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-25** CS by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 7 NAYS 2
- **2026-02-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-26** Now in Rules
- **2026-02-26** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-26** CS by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government read 1st time
- **2026-03-03** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 22 NAYS 0
- **2026-03-04** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-03-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/26
- **2026-03-04** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2026-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-05** In Messages
- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Amendment 690561 adopted
- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-10** In returning messages
- **2026-03-12** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (771754)
- **2026-03-12** Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (690561)
- **2026-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-12** In Messages
- **2026-03-13** Added to Senate Message List
- **2026-03-13** Amendment 771754 Concur
- **2026-03-13** CS passed as amended; YEAS 96, NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-12** Chapter No. 2026-127
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42fbeefc-027b-4e3c-bdb4-a1f99a097a44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).