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

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care"
+description: "Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care; Citing this act as the “Nancy C. Detert Champion for Children Act”; requiring a case manager or other staff to provide a child with verbal and written information about certain topics; deleting limitations on the type of questions a child may ask; establishing the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman within the Department of Children and Families; requiring the department to consult with specified children and young adults when creating or revising certain print or digital written information, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 272"
+citation: "Florida SB 272 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["(adopted)", "judicial branch"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2023-248"
+primary_sponsors: ["Children, Families, and Elder Affairs", "Garcia"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-18"
+last_action: "2023-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68454449-9181-4e14-9133-96c1250d24fa"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "f88d16700d8c4a51b4c28e527e262c04e487a086f4375bf9af8dd3e3d29a5a87"
+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 272 (2023) — Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care
+
+Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care; Citing this act as the “Nancy C. Detert Champion for Children Act”; requiring a case manager or other staff to provide a child with verbal and written information about certain topics; deleting limitations on the type of questions a child may ask; establishing the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman within the Department of Children and Families; requiring the department to consult with specified children and young adults when creating or revising certain print or digital written information, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-248.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 272 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 272 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/BillText/c1/HTML)
+3. **S 272 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/BillText/c2/HTML)
+4. **S 272 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
+- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)
+- Garcia — primary (person)
+- Berman — cosponsor (person)
+- Book — cosponsor (person)
+- Osgood — cosponsor (person)
+- Perry — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-18** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-01-26** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2023-03-30** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 04/04/23, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
+- **2023-04-04** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
+- **2023-04-06** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2023-04-06** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
+- **2023-04-11** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
+- **2023-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 04/18/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2023-04-18** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
+- **2023-04-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2023-04-20** Now in Fiscal Policy
+- **2023-04-20** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/25/23, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2023-04-25** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-25** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
+- **2023-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2023-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/27/23
+- **2023-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2023-04-27** In Messages
+- **2023-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2023-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/1/2023)
+- **2023-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-05-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-02** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2023-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-16** Chapter No. 2023-248
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68454449-9181-4e14-9133-96c1250d24fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
+