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FL SB 796

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Veterinary Medicine

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Veterinary Medicine; Citing this act as the “Veterinary Workforce Innovation Act”; increasing the amount of time for which prescriptions based solely on a veterinary telehealth evaluation may be issued for certain drugs; providing requirements for veterinary professional associates to receive certificates of registration from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; requiring the department to make a list of veterinary professional associate registrants publicly available on its website; authorizing the department to rescind the registration of a veterinary professional associate under certain circumstances, etc.

Introduced
2026-01-13
Status date
—
Latest action
2026-03-13 — Died on Calendar
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Bradleyprimary
  • Regulated Industriesprimary
  • Rulesprimary
  • Jonescosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-12-09

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2025-12-16

    Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Rules

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-05

    On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 01/12/26, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building

  4. 2026-01-12

    CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0

  5. 2026-01-13

    Introduced

    introduction

  6. 2026-01-14

    Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  7. 2026-01-14

    Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

  8. 2026-01-14

    CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time

  9. 2026-01-30

    On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 02/04/26, 3:45 pm, 412 Knott Building

  10. 2026-02-04

    Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 11 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable

  11. 2026-02-05

    Now in Rules

  12. 2026-02-26

    On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building

  13. 2026-03-03

    CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 21 NAYS 1

  14. 2026-03-04

    Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  15. 2026-03-04

    CS/CS by Rules read 1st time

  16. 2026-03-06

    Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

  17. 2026-03-13

    Died on Calendar

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Favorable with Committee Substitute

    2026-01-12 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Bernard: yes
    • Boyd: yes
    • Bracy Davis: yes
    • Brodeur: yes
    • Burgess: yes
    • Calatayud: yes
    • Mayfield: yes
    • Pizzo: yes
    • Bradley: yes

  • Favorable

    2026-02-04 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Arrington: yes
    • DiCeglie: yes
    • Grall: yes
    • Massullo: yes
    • McClain: yes
    • Pizzo: yes
    • Rodriguez: yes
    • Sharief: yes
    • Truenow: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Brodeur: yes

  • Favorable with Committee Substitute

    2026-03-03 · pass · 21-1

    Member-level votes (24)
    • Berman: yes
    • Bradley: yes
    • Brodeur: yes
    • Burgess: yes
    • Burton: yes
    • Davis: yes
    • DiCeglie: yes
    • Gaetz: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Grall: yes
    • Harrell: yes
    • Hooper: yes
    • Martin: yes
    • Osgood: yes
    • Pizzo: yes
    • Rodriguez: yes
    • Rouson: yes
    • Trumbull: yes
    • Wright: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Passidomo: yes
    • Boyd: no
    • Avila: other
    • Simon: other

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/796/ByCategory

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