---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records/Mental Health Treatment and Services"
description: "Public Records/Mental Health Treatment and Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 838"
citation: "Florida SB 838 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-51"
primary_sponsors: ["Powell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0b6399b-aff2-496d-8c08-770a00f87861"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/838/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ebaf51c53026affc12677aab84604ef4aefd58d102a1c545c7acdc95df3fadaf"
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 838 (2019) — Public Records/Mental Health Treatment and Services

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-51.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 838 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/838/BillText/Filed/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Powell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-15** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/11/19, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2019-03-11** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-03-13** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2019-03-14** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2019-03-28** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 04/02/19, 10:00 am, 301 Senate Building
- **2019-04-02** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Now in Rules
- **2019-04-18** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/23/19, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-04-23** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2019-04-24** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-04-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/26/19
- **2019-04-24** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2019-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `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 112 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-01** 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. 2019-51

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0b6399b-aff2-496d-8c08-770a00f87861`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).