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

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Elderly Affairs"
+description: "Department of Elderly Affairs; Revising the list of individuals who may not be appointed as ombudsmen under the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; deleting an exemption from level 2 background screening requirements for certain individuals; requiring the office to notify complainants within a specified timeframe after determining that a complaint against a professional guardian is not legally sufficient; requiring the office to provide a certain written statement to the complainant and the professional guardian within a specified timeframe after completing an investigation; requiring clerks of the court to report to the office within a specified timeframe after the court imposes any sanctions on a professional guardian, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 1396"
+citation: "Florida SB 1396 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["(passed)", "domestic relations"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2023-259"
+primary_sponsors: ["Garcia"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-03-01"
+last_action: "2023-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84027bc7-d8a4-4b3d-9703-b7745ab75259"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1396/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "8b91bce0199bd9315c8f94d9e5e1628d01b492bcd4d7d166981c10f32adbfa9b"
+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 SB 1396 (2023) — Department of Elderly Affairs
+
+Department of Elderly Affairs; Revising the list of individuals who may not be appointed as ombudsmen under the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; deleting an exemption from level 2 background screening requirements for certain individuals; requiring the office to notify complainants within a specified timeframe after determining that a complaint against a professional guardian is not legally sufficient; requiring the office to provide a certain written statement to the complainant and the professional guardian within a specified timeframe after completing an investigation; requiring clerks of the court to report to the office within a specified timeframe after the court imposes any sanctions on a professional guardian, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-259.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 1396 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1396/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 1396 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1396/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Garcia — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-01** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-03-09** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-14** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2023-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/20/23, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
+- **2023-03-20** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-20** Now in Rules
+- **2023-03-31** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/05/23, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2023-04-05** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2023-04-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/12/23
+- **2023-04-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-12** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2023-04-12** Immediately certified
+- **2023-04-12** In Messages
+- **2023-04-25** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2023-04-25** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/28/2023)
+- **2023-04-25** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
+- **2023-04-28** Substituted for CS/HB 1411
+- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-28** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-28** Passed; YEAS 110, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2023-04-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-20** Chapter No. 2023-259
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84027bc7-d8a4-4b3d-9703-b7745ab75259`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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