---
type: "Bill"
title: "Domestic Violence"
description: "Domestic Violence; Adds nonresidential outreach services to list of services certified domestic violence centers must provide; provides funding requirements for certified domestic violence; revises program content requirements for batterers' intervention programs; requires department to adopt certain rules."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1231"
citation: "Florida HB 1231 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["domestic relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-152"
primary_sponsors: ["Melo"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-23"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b774d85-2c7f-4425-85eb-224b48292bb2"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1231/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ef3011730d4847ce175dfc937c50f9569a178d5af72b25ada8d7817fd4640b7e"
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 1231 (2021) — Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence; Adds nonresidential outreach services to list of services certified domestic violence centers must provide; provides funding requirements for certified domestic violence; revises program content requirements for batterers' intervention programs; requires department to adopt certain rules.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-152.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1231 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1231/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1231 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1231/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Melo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-04** Added to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-08** Favorable by Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09** Reported out of Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
- **2021-03-09** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-16** Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-18** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-18** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2021-04-02** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2021-04-06** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-06** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2021-04-06** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2021-04-06** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/15/2021)
- **2021-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-15** Passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** In Messages
- **2021-04-19** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Received
- **2021-04-26** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-26** Substituted for SB 606
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-152

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b774d85-2c7f-4425-85eb-224b48292bb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).