---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program"
description: "Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program; Requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to establish the pilot program; requiring pilot program participants to receive certain training; requiring the department to contract with an organization to develop the curriculum for such training; requiring the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature by a specified date, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1712"
citation: "Florida SB 1712 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["appropriations", "veterans"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-39"
primary_sponsors: ["Burgess"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-07"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39af5a92-f4dd-49ac-a496-31762331cd8c"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1712/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a9963b3caa6c6a21bf37432b585f33716efdc6c5a887fa1d1c10c4e59d8106cd"
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 1712 (2022) — Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program

Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program; Requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to establish the pilot program; requiring pilot program participants to receive certain training; requiring the department to contract with an organization to develop the curriculum for such training; requiring the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature by a specified date, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-39.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1712 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1712/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1712 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1712/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 1712 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1712/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burgess — primary (person)
- Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-07** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 01/25/22, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-25** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-25** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2022-02-11** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/16/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-16** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-16** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/24/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-24** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-28** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/02/22
- **2022-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** Amendment(s) adopted (590420)
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** 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. 2022-39

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39af5a92-f4dd-49ac-a496-31762331cd8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).