Florida Senate Bill 7012 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Committee Bill
Status: Passed on June 26 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-06-26 - Chapter No. 2025-186
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Requiring the Department of Children and Families to maintain copies of certain assessments and tools used to assess children for certain placement; removing authority for the department to grant exemptions from working with children or the developmentally disabled; subject to an appropriation, requiring the department to develop a child protective investigator and case manager recruitment program for a specified purpose; subject to an appropriation and beginning on a specified date, requiring the department to develop a 4-year pilot program for treatment foster care; specifying that incentives provided to state employees for participating in research or evaluation with the Florida Institute for Child Welfare do not violate certain laws or require certain reporting, etc.

Child Welfare

Senate Fiscal Policy Committee

Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee

2025-05-02 - House - House: Third Reading RCS#418 (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 21 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-05-01 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RCS#18 (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-04-30 - House - House: Third Reading RCS#381 (Y: 113 N: 0 NV: 6 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-03-19 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RCS#14 (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-03-13 - Senate - Senate Fiscal Policy (Y: 18 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-03-04 - Senate - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-06-26		Chapter No. 2025-186
2025-06-25		Approved by Governor
2025-06-18		Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
2025-05-02	Senate	Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
2025-05-02	House	CS passed as amended; YEAS 98, NAYS 0
2025-05-02	House	Amendment 451310 Concur
2025-05-02	House	Senate Message List
2025-05-01	House	In Messages
2025-05-01	Senate	CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
2025-05-01	Senate	Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (646549)
2025-05-01	Senate	Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (451310)
2025-04-30	Senate	In returning messages
2025-04-30	House	CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0
2025-04-30	House	Read 3rd time
2025-04-30	House	Added to Third Reading Calendar
2025-04-30	House	Placed on 3rd reading
2025-04-30	House	Amendment 646549 adopted
2025-04-30	House	Read 2nd time
2025-04-29	House	1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
2025-04-29	House	Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
2025-04-29	House	Bill referred to House Calendar
2025-03-19	House	In Messages
2025-03-19	Senate	Immediately certified
2025-03-19	Senate	CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
2025-03-19	Senate	Read 3rd time
2025-03-19	Senate	Read 2nd time
2025-03-18	Senate	CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
2025-03-17	Senate	Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/19/25
2025-03-14	Senate	Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2025-03-13	Senate	Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2025-03-13	Senate	CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
2025-03-10	Senate	Introduced
2025-03-10	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/13/25, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
2025-03-06	Senate	Referred to Fiscal Policy
2025-03-05	Senate	Filed
2025-03-04	Senate	Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
2025-02-27	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/04/25, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
2025-02-27	Senate	Submitted for consideration by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

H1127 (Similar To) 2025-04-30 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 7012 (Ch. 2025-186)
H415 (Similar To) 2025-06-16 - Died in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 7012 (Ch. 2025-186)
H1301 (Similar To) 2025-06-16 - Died in Human Services Subcommittee, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 7012 (Ch. 2025-186)
H6045 (Similar To) 2025-06-16 - Died in Human Services Subcommittee, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 7012 (Ch. 2025-186)
S618 (Similar To) 2025-06-16 - Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 7012 (Ch. 2025-186)
S1626 (Similar To) 2025-06-16 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1255 (Ch. 2025-110), CS/SB 7012 (Ch.2025-186)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
1002	57		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1002	59		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1004	615		Amended Code	See Bill Text
39	524		Amended Code	See Bill Text
39	905		Amended Code	See Bill Text
402	305		Amended Code	See Bill Text
402	30501		Amended Code	See Bill Text
402	402		Amended Code	See Bill Text
409	175		Amended Code	See Bill Text
409	987		Amended Code	See Bill Text
409	993		Amended Code	See Bill Text
409	996		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/pb/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/c1/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/e1/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/er/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Amendment/912172/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Amendment/119236/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Amendment/374723/PDF
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Amendment/646549/PDF
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Amendment/451310/HTML
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Analyses/2025s07012.pre.cf.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Analyses/2025s07012.cf.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Analyses/2025s07012.pre.fp.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Analyses/2025s07012.fp.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Analyses/2025s07012.hms.cf.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Vote/2025-03-04%200400PM~S07012%20Vote%20Record.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Vote/2025-03-13%200830AM~S07012%20Vote%20Record.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Vote/SenateVote_s07012c1014.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Vote/HouseVote_s07012c1381.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Vote/SenateVote_s07012c1018.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/Vote/HouseVote_s07012c1418.PDF