---
type: "Bill"
title: "Victims of Crimes"
description: "Victims of Crimes; Requiring law enforcement personnel to ensure that crime victims are given information about specified rights, upon request, at all stages of criminal, parole, or juvenile proceedings; requiring law enforcement personnel to ensure that crime victims are given information about their right to employ private counsel; encouraging The Florida Bar to develop a registry of attorneys willing to serve on a pro bono basis as advocates for crime victims, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1012"
citation: "Florida SB 1012 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-106"
primary_sponsors: ["Burgess", "Judiciary"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-11-19"
last_action: "2022-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8697008e-3c1c-4537-b62b-50b56bc7ea49"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1012/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3a081d1204349d742ec946915dafdf0872dfc78f6b71667c2f647114e98f971f"
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 1012 (2022) — Victims of Crimes

Victims of Crimes; Requiring law enforcement personnel to ensure that crime victims are given information about specified rights, upon request, at all stages of criminal, parole, or juvenile proceedings; requiring law enforcement personnel to ensure that crime victims are given information about their right to employ private counsel; encouraging The Florida Bar to develop a registry of attorneys willing to serve on a pro bono basis as advocates for crime victims, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-106.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1012 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1012/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1012 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1012/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1012 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1012/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burgess — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-19** Filed `filing`
- **2021-12-13** Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/25/22, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-25** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-25** Now in Judiciary
- **2022-01-26** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/31/22, 3:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-31** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-01** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-02** Now in Rules
- **2022-02-02** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2022-02-07** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/10/22, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2022-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/15/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-15** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/23/22
- **2022-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-23** In Messages
- **2022-02-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
- **2022-02-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-03** Substituted for CS/HB 697
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-05-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-12** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-12** Chapter No. 2022-106

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8697008e-3c1c-4537-b62b-50b56bc7ea49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).