HB 797 Florida House · 2025 Regular Session

Veteran and Spouse Nursing Home Beds

Summary

Veteran and Spouse Nursing Home Beds; Authorizes certain licensed skilled nursing facilities to request to designate or alter designation of certain beds as veteran & spouse nursing home beds if specific criteria are met; authorizes executive director of DVA to approve such requests if specific criteria are met; authorizes DVA to adopt rules; specifies conditions under which certain state veterans' nursing homes or certain licensed skilled nursing facilities are exempt from having to receive certificate of need from AHCA.

Issues: ✓ Veterans

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Apr 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Feb 20, 2025 Signed Jun 6, 2025

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What changed between versions

H 797 c1 → H 797 er · 1 edit

MINOR

This bill has been enrolled and finalized for the 2025 Legislature. The changes are primarily technical and formatting updates, including adding 'ENROLLED' status headers and updating document identifiers from 'c1' (committee version) to 'er' (enrolled version). No substantive policy changes, funding amounts, eligibility criteria, or requirements were modified.

TECHNICAL

Document status updated from committee version to enrolled version with corresponding header changes and identifier updates from 'c1' to 'er'

Floor votes · Senate Apr 28, 2025 · House Apr 24, 2025

How they voted

36–0

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 38

Apr 28, 2025

D Democratic10

10 Yea

100% Yea

I Independent1

1 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican27

25 Yea 2

92% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Jun 6, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by Governor

legislature

Apr 28, 2025

Upper · Passed

CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0

upper

Apr 25, 2025

Committee

Referred to Fiscal Policy

upper

Apr 24, 2025

Lower · Passed

CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0

lower

Apr 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported out of State Affairs Committee

lower

Apr 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

Favorable by State Affairs Committee

lower

Apr 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Added to State Affairs Committee agenda

lower

Mar 19, 2025

Lower · Passed

Now in State Affairs Committee

lower

Mar 19, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported out of Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

lower

Mar 19, 2025

Lower · Passed

Favorable by Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

lower

Mar 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Added to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee agenda

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to State Affairs Committee

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

lower

Mar 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported out of Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee

lower

Mar 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Favorable with CS by Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee

lower

Mar 10, 2025

Lower · Passed

Added to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee agenda

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

Now in Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Committee

Referred to State Affairs Committee

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Committee

Referred to Health Care Budget Subcommittee

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Committee

Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Committee

Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee

lower

1 primary · 3 co-sponsors