---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams"
description: "Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams; Authorizing a state attorney, or his or her designee, to initiate an elder abuse fatality review team in his or her judicial circuit; authorizing elder abuse fatality review teams in existence on a certain date to continue to exist; requiring each review team to annually submit to the department a summary report containing specified information by a certain date; providing immunity from monetary liability for review team members under certain conditions, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 400"
citation: "Florida SB 400 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-17"
primary_sponsors: ["Gibson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-09-30"
last_action: "2020-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b865b712-dac8-4032-8fd0-05ced3446354"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/400/ByCategory"
source_hash: "1854b9f4dc513bc5e77de138a7ac631c5be97d6ac4408e3f73f00277717f326e"
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 400 (2020) — Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams

Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams; Authorizing a state attorney, or his or her designee, to initiate an elder abuse fatality review team in his or her judicial circuit; authorizing elder abuse fatality review teams in existence on a certain date to continue to exist; requiring each review team to annually submit to the department a summary report containing specified information by a certain date; providing immunity from monetary liability for review team members under certain conditions, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-17.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 400 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/400/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 400 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/400/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 400 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/400/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gibson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-30** Filed `filing`
- **2019-10-15** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-28** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 11/05/19, 2:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2019-11-05** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-11-05** Now in Judiciary
- **2019-12-02** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 12/10/19, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-12-10** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-12-10** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 01/23/20, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-01-23** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-01-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/20
- **2020-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-29** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2020-02-04** Immediately certified
- **2020-02-04** In Messages
- **2020-03-06** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
- **2020-03-06** Received
- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Amendment(s) adopted (641173) -HJ 993, 994
- **2020-03-09** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** Passed as amended; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** In returning messages
- **2020-03-12** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (641173)
- **2020-03-12** Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-05-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-10** Chapter No. 2020-17

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b865b712-dac8-4032-8fd0-05ced3446354`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).