Florida Senate Bill 818 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on April 30 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-04-30 - Died in Rules
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Revising education requirements for licensure by examination as a marriage and family therapist; requiring a licensed mental health professional to be accessible by telephone or other electronic means when a registered intern is providing services through telehealth; deleting a requirement that a licensed mental health professional be on the premises when a registered intern is providing clinical services in a private setting; authorizing courts to appoint mental health professionals licensed under ch. 491, F.S., as experts in criminal cases, etc.

Mental Health Professionals

Senate Criminal Justice Committee

Sen. Daniel Burgess [R]

2021-03-30 - Senate - Senate Criminal Justice (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-03-17 - Senate - Senate Health Policy (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-04-30	Senate	Died in Rules
2021-04-02	Senate	Now in Rules
2021-04-01	Senate	CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
2021-03-30	Senate	Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2021-03-30	Senate	CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
2021-03-25	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/30/21, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
2021-03-17	Senate	Now in Criminal Justice
2021-03-17	Senate	Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
2021-03-12	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/17/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
2021-03-02	Senate	Introduced
2021-02-04	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Criminal Justice; Rules
2021-01-26	Senate	Filed

H941 (Similar To) 2021-04-30 - Died in Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
S1568 (Similar To) 2021-04-30 - Died in returning Messages

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
491	005		Amended Code	See Bill Text
916	115		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/BillText/c1/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/Amendment/526946/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/Amendment/840726/HTML
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/Analyses/2021s00818.pre.hp.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/Analyses/2021s00818.hp.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/Analyses/2021s00818.pre.cj.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/Analyses/2021s00818.cj.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/Vote/2021-03-17%200900AM~S00818%20Vote%20Record.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/818/Vote/2021-03-30%200900AM~S00818%20Vote%20Record.PDF