---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Welfare"
description: "Child Welfare"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 262"
citation: "Florida SB 262 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-128"
primary_sponsors: ["Albritton"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ce64373-7c48-4531-b122-b8a7099d26e9"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/262/ByCategory"
source_hash: "bb4277639b2c8239af937d17b273d15c682b9bd29aa53156639849bf407b9638"
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 262 (2019) — Child Welfare

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-128.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 262 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/262/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 262 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/262/BillText/c1/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Albritton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Filed `filing`
- **2019-01-22** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/04/19, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2019-02-04** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Now in Judiciary
- **2019-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/19/19, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-02-19** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2019-02-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-02-22** Now in Rules
- **2019-03-01** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/06/19, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2019-03-06** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/25/19
- **2019-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-25** Amendment(s) adopted (452716, 461946)
- **2019-04-25** Ordered engrossed
- **2019-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 -SJ 572, 573 `passage`
- **2019-04-26** In Messages
- **2019-04-26** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/29/19
- **2019-04-26** Received
- **2019-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-30** CS passed; YEAS 112 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-30** Ordered enrolled
- **2019-06-25** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-26** Chapter No. 2019-128

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ce64373-7c48-4531-b122-b8a7099d26e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).