---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records/Child Abuse, Abandonment, or Neglect"
description: "Public Records/Child Abuse, Abandonment, or Neglect"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 318"
citation: "Florida SB 318 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-49"
primary_sponsors: ["Montford"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cbff7a4-e5d9-40a4-ac1c-fed3ce1dab9c"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/318/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ba4aa171fe051f6d3bf4cccaf4ea6fbaa4084c04befc22c8c69fdb9f1d934e21"
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 318 (2019) — Public Records/Child Abuse, Abandonment, or Neglect

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-49.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 318 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/318/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 318 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/318/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 318 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/318/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 318 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/318/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 318 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/318/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 318 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/318/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Montford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Filed `filing`
- **2019-01-25** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Education; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/11/19, 4:30 pm, 301 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2019-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/19/19, 12:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2019-02-19** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2019-02-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-02-22** Now in Education
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2019-03-14** On Committee agenda-- Education, 03/19/19, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-03-19** CS/CS by Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-03-25** Now in Rules
- **2019-03-26** CS/CS by Education read 1st time
- **2019-03-29** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/03/19, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-04-03** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-05** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-04-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-08** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/10/19
- **2019-04-09** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2019-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-10** Amendment(s) adopted (150002)
- **2019-04-10** Ordered engrossed
- **2019-04-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-23** Immediately certified
- **2019-04-23** 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
- **2019-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-05-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-24** Chapter No. 2019-49

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6cbff7a4-e5d9-40a4-ac1c-fed3ce1dab9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).