---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Care Facilities"
description: "Child Care Facilities; Citing this act as the \"Child Safety Alarm Act\"; requiring certain vehicles, by a specified date, to be equipped with a reliable alarm system that meets specified criteria; requiring the Department of Children and Families to adopt by rule minimum safety standards for such systems and to maintain a list of approved alarm manufacturers and alarm systems, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 252"
citation: "Florida SB 252 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-120"
primary_sponsors: ["Stewart"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-11"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55886bdb-66b9-4290-a6fa-800235ff5036"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/252/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a6f1d7c06416da79897179eb47a0b435914b545a858c9f11a883f5a2c2db8309"
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 252 (2021) — Child Care Facilities

Child Care Facilities; Citing this act as the "Child Safety Alarm Act"; requiring certain vehicles, by a specified date, to be equipped with a reliable alarm system that meets specified criteria; requiring the Department of Children and Families to adopt by rule minimum safety standards for such systems and to maintain a list of approved alarm manufacturers and alarm systems, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-120.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 252 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/252/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 252 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/252/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–1** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stewart — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-12-11** Filed `filing`
- **2020-12-21** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Transportation; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/03/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-02-03** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-04** Now in Transportation
- **2021-02-26** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 03/03/21, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-03** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/31/21, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-31** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 14 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/07/21
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-07** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** Passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-120

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55886bdb-66b9-4290-a6fa-800235ff5036`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).