Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Child Welfare"
+description: "Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families and Department of Juvenile Justice to identify and meet the needs of dually-involved children within a specified timeframe; revising information that must be included in a transition plan; requiring prenatal and infant health care delivery programs to include certain father engagement activities; requiring the Department of Children and Families to contract for the development and implementation of the Responsible Fatherhood Initiative and to provide grants to community-based not-for-profit organizations to offer certain mentorship programs; designating the month of June as \"Responsible Fatherhood Month\", etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 7065"
+citation: "Florida HB 7065 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["commercial relations", "judicial branch", "public health", "social welfare"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2022-67"
+primary_sponsors: ["Altman"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2022-02-07"
+last_action: "2022-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65497666-3afe-4f25-8979-09c44d6dc321"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7065/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "3dfb0b730afcf91566aa40e5323476b4d5d45cc7ae7e32481fc4bb95ca639021"
+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 7065 (2022) — Child Welfare
+
+Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families and Department of Juvenile Justice to identify and meet the needs of dually-involved children within a specified timeframe; revising information that must be included in a transition plan; requiring prenatal and infant health care delivery programs to include certain father engagement activities; requiring the Department of Children and Families to contract for the development and implementation of the Responsible Fatherhood Initiative and to provide grants to community-based not-for-profit organizations to offer certain mentorship programs; designating the month of June as "Responsible Fatherhood Month", etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-67.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **H 7065 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7065/BillText/Filed/PDF)
+2. **H 7065 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7065/BillText/e1/PDF)
+3. **H 7065 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7065/BillText/er/PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Altman — primary (person)
+- Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee — primary (organization)
+- Avila — cosponsor (person)
+- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell — cosponsor (person)
+- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
+- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
+- Casello — cosponsor (person)
+- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Fetterhoff — cosponsor (person)
+- Fine — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory — cosponsor (person)
+- Harding — cosponsor (person)
+- Hart — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Massullo — cosponsor (person)
+- McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
+- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
+- Roth — cosponsor (person)
+- Sirois — cosponsor (person)
+- Tomkow — cosponsor (person)
+- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
+- Truenow — cosponsor (person)
+- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-07** Filed `filing`
+- **2022-02-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2022-02-08** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
+- **2022-02-08** Added to Second Reading Calendar
+- **2022-02-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/15/2022)
+- **2022-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-15** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2022-02-15** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2022-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-16** Amendment 638065 Failed
+- **2022-02-16** Amendment 063139 adopted
+- **2022-02-16** Passed as amended; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2022-02-17** Immediately certified
+- **2022-02-17** In Messages
+- **2022-02-17** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/21/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
+- **2022-02-17** Received
+- **2022-02-21** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2022-03-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
+- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-04** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2022-03-04** In Messages
+- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
+- **2022-04-11** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
+- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-04-11** Chapter No. 2022-67; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1577 (Ch. 2022-65)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65497666-3afe-4f25-8979-09c44d6dc321`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
+