---
type: "Bill"
title: "Services for Veterans and Their Families"
description: "Services for Veterans and Their Families; Authorizes DVA to establish Florida Veterans' Care Coordination Program to provide behavioral health care referral & care coordination services for veterans & their families; authorizes DVA to contract with certain nonprofit entity to enter into agreements with Florida 211 Network participants to provide such services; provides for statewide delivery of specified services by program teams; requires Florida 211 Network participants to collect program implementation data & submit such data to DVA; requires DVA to submit report to Governor & Legislature."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 231"
citation: "Florida HB 231 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-198"
primary_sponsors: ["Zika"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b32cae7-e943-4fdd-840e-f1416b214f74"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/231/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d76555e16cc4b8e66c4de03efc0e0d5e08c17f13b8213cc9bf7374d4e1fa37e4"
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 231 (2021) — Services for Veterans and Their Families

Services for Veterans and Their Families; Authorizes DVA to establish Florida Veterans' Care Coordination Program to provide behavioral health care referral & care coordination services for veterans & their families; authorizes DVA to contract with certain nonprofit entity to enter into agreements with Florida 211 Network participants to provide such services; provides for statewide delivery of specified services by program teams; requires Florida 211 Network participants to collect program implementation data & submit such data to DVA; requires DVA to submit report to Governor & Legislature.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-198.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 231 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/231/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 231 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/231/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (State Affairs Committee) — **24–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Zika — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-22** Referred to Local Administration and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** Added to Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-02-16** Favorable by Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** Reported out of Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
- **2021-02-16** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-04** Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-08** Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-08** Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-08** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2021-03-15** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2021-03-17** Favorable by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2021-03-17** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2021-03-17** 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 117, 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
- **2021-04-21** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-21** Substituted for CS/SB 260
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-21** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-198

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b32cae7-e943-4fdd-840e-f1416b214f74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).