---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Welfare"
description: "Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families and Department of Juvenile Justice to identify and meet the needs of dually-involved children within a specified timeframe; revising information that must be included in a transition plan; requiring prenatal and infant health care delivery programs to include certain father engagement activities; requiring the Department of Children and Families to contract for the development and implementation of the Responsible Fatherhood Initiative and to provide grants to community-based not-for-profit organizations to offer certain mentorship programs; designating the month of June as \"Responsible Fatherhood Month\", etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 7065"
citation: "Florida HB 7065 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["commercial relations", "judicial branch", "public health", "social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-67"
primary_sponsors: ["Altman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65497666-3afe-4f25-8979-09c44d6dc321"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7065/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3dfb0b730afcf91566aa40e5323476b4d5d45cc7ae7e32481fc4bb95ca639021"
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 7065 (2022) — Child Welfare

Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families and Department of Juvenile Justice to identify and meet the needs of dually-involved children within a specified timeframe; revising information that must be included in a transition plan; requiring prenatal and infant health care delivery programs to include certain father engagement activities; requiring the Department of Children and Families to contract for the development and implementation of the Responsible Fatherhood Initiative and to provide grants to community-based not-for-profit organizations to offer certain mentorship programs; designating the month of June as "Responsible Fatherhood Month", etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-67.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 7065 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7065/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 7065 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7065/BillText/e1/PDF)
3. **H 7065 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7065/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Altman — primary (person)
- Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Casello — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Fetterhoff — cosponsor (person)
- Fine — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory — cosponsor (person)
- Harding — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Massullo — cosponsor (person)
- McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Sirois — cosponsor (person)
- Tomkow — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Truenow — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** Filed `filing`
- **2022-02-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-08** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-02-08** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/15/2022)
- **2022-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-02-15** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-16** Amendment 638065 Failed
- **2022-02-16** Amendment 063139 adopted
- **2022-02-16** Passed as amended; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-17** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-17** In Messages
- **2022-02-17** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/21/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-17** Received
- **2022-02-21** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-04-11** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-11** Chapter No. 2022-67; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1577 (Ch. 2022-65)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65497666-3afe-4f25-8979-09c44d6dc321`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).