---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adoption Benefits"
description: "Adoption Benefits; Provides eligibility to certain veterans & servicemembers for specified adoption benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 61"
citation: "Florida HB 61 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-22"
primary_sponsors: ["Children", "Families and Seniors Subcommittee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-08-15"
last_action: "2020-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f914fd50-6a28-452a-bd5d-018f5bb9ad59"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/61/ByCategory"
source_hash: "bb6810b0940274112126408f00c9ee5f2ef3005a9a34f9edd14f1f08a2cc619d"
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 HB 61 (2020) — Adoption Benefits

Adoption Benefits; Provides eligibility to certain veterans & servicemembers for specified adoption benefits.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-22.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 61 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/61/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 61 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/61/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 61 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/61/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 61 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/61/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Children — primary (person)
- Families and Seniors Subcommittee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-15** Filed `filing`
- **2019-09-23** Referred to Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-17** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee, 10/24/19, 9:30 am, 12 HOB
- **2019-10-24** CS by Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; YEAS 14 NAYS 0
- **2019-10-24** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-10-28** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2019-10-30** On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 11/06/19, 1:00 pm, Sumner Hall
- **2019-11-06** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-11-07** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 01/16/20, 12:30 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-01-16** CS/CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-16** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-01-16** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-01-16** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/22/20
- **2020-01-16** CS/CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2020-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-22** CS passed; YEAS 118 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-01-29** In Messages
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Received
- **2020-02-19** Withdrawn from Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-02-19** Substituted for CS/SB 136
- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-05-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-10** Chapter No. 2020-22

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f914fd50-6a28-452a-bd5d-018f5bb9ad59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).