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HB 1217 Florida House · 2020 Regular Session

Surrendered Newborn Infants

Summary
Surrendered Newborn Infants; Authorizes hospitals, emergency medical services stations, & fire stations to use newborn safety devices to accept surrendered newborn infants under certain circumstances; requires such entities to visually check & test device within specified timeframes; adds locations under which prohibition on initiation of criminal investigations based solely on surrendering of newborn infant applies.
Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
House Passage
Mar 2020
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 14, 2020 Last action Mar 14, 2020
Floor votes · House Mar 4, 2020

How they voted

66–1
Passed
Total votes 67
Mar 4, 2020
D Democratic23
22 Yea 1 Nay
95% Yea
R Republican44
44 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
23
Key actions
9
Committee
10
Mar 5, 2020
Committee
Referred to Health Policy; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules
upper
Mar 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 2
lower
Feb 18, 2020
Lower · Passed
Favorable by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
lower
Feb 14, 2020
Lower · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/18/20, 3:00 pm, Morris Hall
lower
Feb 11, 2020
Lower · Passed
Now in Health and Human Services Committee
lower
Feb 11, 2020
Lower · Passed
Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 8 NAYS 1
lower
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 02/11/20, 1:30 pm, Reed Hall
lower
Feb 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
lower
Feb 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Favorable by Health Market Reform Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
lower
Jan 31, 2020
Lower · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Health Market Reform Subcommittee, 02/04/20, 8:00 am, Mashburn Hall
lower
Jan 17, 2020
Committee
Referred to Health Market Reform Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee
lower
Jan 14, 2020
Introduced
Introduced
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

No sponsor information available.