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type: "Bill"
title: "Sickle Cell Disease Care Management and Treatment Continuing Education"
description: "Sickle Cell Disease Care Management and Treatment Continuing Education; Revising requirements for a continuing education course on prescribing controlled substances which health care practitioners are required to complete, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 844"
citation: "Florida SB 844 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-6"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-10"
last_action: "2026-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97e98a42-abc7-438c-a6b2-a7fc3fff2289"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/844/ByCategory"
source_hash: "76d2faf57e3fc7f9751e14fe55a508222a5b95b1bafc4fe3e193805997c1c81c"
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 844 (2026) — Sickle Cell Disease Care Management and Treatment Continuing Education
Sickle Cell Disease Care Management and Treatment Continuing Education; Revising requirements for a continuing education course on prescribing controlled substances which health care practitioners are required to complete, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-6.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 844 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/844/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 844 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/844/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 844 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/844/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **90** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **110** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1130** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **190** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
- Jones — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-12-10** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-16** Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-28** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/02/26, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-02** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2026-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/12/26, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-12** CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-13** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-13** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/18/26, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-18** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-18** CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
- **2026-02-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/25/26
- **2026-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-25** 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 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2026-03-10** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-30** Chapter No. 2026-6
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97e98a42-abc7-438c-a6b2-a7fc3fff2289`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).