---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homeless Youth"
description: "Homeless Youth; Revises & provides provisions relating to specified homeless youth, including ability to receive documents at no charge, aid in achieving postsecondary education success, assistance in acquiring motor vehicle insurance & driver licenses, certification as unaccompanied homeless youth, removal of disability of nonage, card issued by school board containing specified information, ability to consent to certain care, & fee exemption eligibility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1577"
citation: "Florida HB 1577 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["domestic relations", "public health"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-65"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46db0d9b-081f-4a06-9315-3b3947edb611"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1577/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e5ab0e0a0b59677bb8104d56b5714e4cf0262213e6de2f757682e7cd148790de"
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 1577 (2022) — Homeless Youth

Homeless Youth; Revises & provides provisions relating to specified homeless youth, including ability to receive documents at no charge, aid in achieving postsecondary education success, assistance in acquiring motor vehicle insurance & driver licenses, certification as unaccompanied homeless youth, removal of disability of nonage, card issued by school board containing specified information, ability to consent to certain care, & fee exemption eligibility.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-65.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1577 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1577/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1577 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1577/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1577 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1577/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1577 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1577/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Health and Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Woodson — primary (person)
- Arrington — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
- Busatta Cabrera — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Fetterhoff — cosponsor (person)
- Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Jenne — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Rayner — cosponsor (person)
- Roach — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, F. — cosponsor (person)
- Slosberg-King — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
- **2022-02-01** Added to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-02-03** Favorable with CS by Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
- **2022-02-07** Reported out of Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
- **2022-02-07** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-02-07** CS Filed
- **2022-02-07** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-02-09** Original reference removed: Appropriations Committee
- **2022-02-09** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2022-02-15** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2022-02-17** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee
- **2022-02-18** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2022-02-18** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-02-18** CS Filed
- **2022-02-21** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2022-02-21** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** In Messages
- **2022-03-02** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Received
- **2022-03-04** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for SB 1708
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-65; companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7065 (Ch. 2022-67)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46db0d9b-081f-4a06-9315-3b3947edb611`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).