---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records/Minor’s Petition to Waive Consent/Abortion"
description: "Public Records/Minor’s Petition to Waive Consent/Abortion; Providing a public records exemption for information that could identify a minor which is contained in a record held by the court relating to the minor’s petition to waive consent requirements to obtain an abortion; providing for future legislative review and repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 406"
citation: "Florida SB 406 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-148"
primary_sponsors: ["Stargel"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-09-30"
last_action: "2020-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f4c6530-7830-496b-9dae-801ccb009259"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/406/ByCategory"
source_hash: "203169cf762bd21568f7c86250346c378d98ef8abf0b6bab87f125f4405dac70"
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 406 (2020) — Public Records/Minor’s Petition to Waive Consent/Abortion

Public Records/Minor’s Petition to Waive Consent/Abortion; Providing a public records exemption for information that could identify a minor which is contained in a record held by the court relating to the minor’s petition to waive consent requirements to obtain an abortion; providing for future legislative review and repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-148.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 406 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/406/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 406 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/406/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 406 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/406/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 406 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/406/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–7** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stargel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-30** Filed `filing`
- **2019-10-15** Referred to Health Policy; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-05** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 11/12/19, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2019-12-02** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 12/10/19, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-12-10** CS by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2019-12-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-12-13** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2020-01-06** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/13/20, 1:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-01-13** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-13** Now in Rules
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Health Policy read 1st time
- **2020-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/22/20, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-01-22** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 9 NAYS 7
- **2020-01-24** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-01-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-01-27** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **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
- **2020-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-06** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2020-02-12** In Messages
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
- **2020-02-13** Received
- **2020-02-19** Substituted for HB 267
- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** CS passed; YEAS 112 NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-01** Chapter No. 2020-148

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f4c6530-7830-496b-9dae-801ccb009259`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).