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type: "Bill"
title: "Child Welfare"
description: "Child Welfare; Requires certain training for judges; authorizes & provides requirements for early childhood court programs; authorizes DCF to file petitions; requires court to consider specified factors when determining change of legal custody or placement; revises & provides requirements for case plans; provides requirements for court jurisdiction, information disclosure, & caregiver recommendations; provides timeframes for certain studies & licensing; provides requirements & processes for adoption of certain children; provides responsibilities for foster parents, birth or legal parents, DCF, & community-based care lead agency; requires employees of residential group homes to meet specified requirements; authorizes community-based care lead agency to provide more than 35 percent of all child welfare services under certain conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1105"
citation: "Florida HB 1105 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare", "civil practice and procedure", "judicial branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-138"
primary_sponsors: ["Tomkow"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62e22bb6-49d6-4ef3-86a0-a05ff4a69f77"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1105/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9d517f21132a4524b675f0a3fac84b759ae205e06b0053dc30d5418da70f3596"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---
# Florida HB 1105 (2020) — Child Welfare
Child Welfare; Requires certain training for judges; authorizes & provides requirements for early childhood court programs; authorizes DCF to file petitions; requires court to consider specified factors when determining change of legal custody or placement; revises & provides requirements for case plans; provides requirements for court jurisdiction, information disclosure, & caregiver recommendations; provides timeframes for certain studies & licensing; provides requirements & processes for adoption of certain children; provides responsibilities for foster parents, birth or legal parents, DCF, & community-based care lead agency; requires employees of residential group homes to meet specified requirements; authorizes community-based care lead agency to provide more than 35 percent of all child welfare services under certain conditions.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-138.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 1105 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1105/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1105 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1105/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1105 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1105/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1105 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1105/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1105 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1105/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Appropriations Committee) — **26–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Tomkow — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-06** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-13** Referred to Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee, 01/22/20, 9:30 am, 12 HOB
- **2020-01-22** CS by Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-24** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-01-24** CS by Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-01-27** Now in Appropriations Committee
- **2020-02-03** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee, 02/05/20, 10:00 am, Webster Hall
- **2020-02-05** Favorable by Appropriations Committee; YEAS 26 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-05** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-14** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/18/20, 3:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-18** CS/CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-20** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-20** CS/CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** Amendment(s) adopted (957847)
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 118 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** In Messages
- **2020-03-10** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-10** Received
- **2020-03-11** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-11** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-11** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1324
- **2020-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-11** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-12** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Chapter No. 2020-138
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62e22bb6-49d6-4ef3-86a0-a05ff4a69f77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).