---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health"
description: "Mental Health"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1418"
citation: "Florida SB 1418 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-134"
primary_sponsors: ["Powell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c3682d8-3ccc-40e8-bbfd-509d02c8bf7e"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1418/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a3e36f20323971f2d4e9c2dc577e6016789f94fb532c9aab3cb787552d337bdf"
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 1418 (2019) — Mental Health

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-134.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1418 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1418/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1418 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1418/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1418 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1418/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1418 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1418/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Powell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-27** Filed `filing`
- **2019-03-04** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 04/01/19, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2019-04-01** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-02** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-04-03** Original reference(s) removed: Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2019-04-03** Remaining references corrected to Rules
- **2019-04-03** Now in Rules
- **2019-04-03** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2019-04-12** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/17/19, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-04-17** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-18** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-04-22** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2019-04-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/26/19
- **2019-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 -SJ 559, 560 `passage`
- **2019-04-26** In Messages
- **2019-04-29** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/30/19
- **2019-04-29** Received
- **2019-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-01** CS passed; YEAS 113 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Ordered enrolled
- **2019-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-26** Chapter No. 2019-134, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7125 (Ch. 2019-167)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c3682d8-3ccc-40e8-bbfd-509d02c8bf7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).