---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substance Abuse and Mental Health"
description: "Substance Abuse and Mental Health; Providing additional duties for the Statewide Office for Suicide Prevention; requiring the Department of Transportation to work with the office in developing a plan relating to evidence-based suicide deterrents in certain locations; requiring that certain information be provided to the guardian or representative of a minor patient released from involuntary examination; requiring the maintenance of psychotropic medications to specified defendants under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 7012"
citation: "Florida SB 7012 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)", "domestic relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-39"
primary_sponsors: ["Children", "Families", "and Elder Affairs"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-11-05"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd6b8847-3141-4147-9031-287305b14309"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7012/ByCategory"
source_hash: "07a1a02840209a0910207ebfa843a033c51aa61689a411a03695a5c0c69a3497"
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 7012 (2020) — Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Substance Abuse and Mental Health; Providing additional duties for the Statewide Office for Suicide Prevention; requiring the Department of Transportation to work with the office in developing a plan relating to evidence-based suicide deterrents in certain locations; requiring that certain information be provided to the guardian or representative of a minor patient released from involuntary examination; requiring the maintenance of psychotropic medications to specified defendants under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-39.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 7012 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7012/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 7012 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7012/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 7012 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7012/BillText/pb/HTML)
4. **S 7012 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7012/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 7012 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7012/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Children — primary (person)
- Families — primary (person)
- and Elder Affairs — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-05** Submitted for consideration by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- **2019-11-05** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 11/12/19, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2019-11-12** Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2019-11-13** Filed `filing`
- **2019-11-21** Referred to Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/13/20, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-13** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-17** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/20/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2020-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/27/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-27** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/20
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-05** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Amendment(s) adopted (541211) -HJ 1055, 1061
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 118 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** In returning messages
- **2020-03-13** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (541211)
- **2020-03-13** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 -SJ 887, 888 `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-19** Chapter No. 2020-39

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd6b8847-3141-4147-9031-287305b14309`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).