---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health and Substance Abuse"
description: "Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Revising provisions relating to the voluntary admission of minors to a facility for examination and treatment; requiring that a minor’s assent to voluntary care be verified through a clinical review; requiring law enforcement officers transporting individuals for involuntary treatment to take certain actions; requiring law enforcement officers transporting individuals for certain treatment to take certain actions, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1844"
citation: "Florida SB 1844 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-41"
primary_sponsors: ["Bean", "Children, Families, and Elder Affairs"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-07"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe11893c-b37e-4b18-91dc-1756643b1018"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1844/ByCategory"
source_hash: "16c08d228fd1bfc4fc39c34330a87d5abaf6499249636169b6830ef665de503f"
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 1844 (2022) — Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Revising provisions relating to the voluntary admission of minors to a facility for examination and treatment; requiring that a minor’s assent to voluntary care be verified through a clinical review; requiring law enforcement officers transporting individuals for involuntary treatment to take certain actions; requiring law enforcement officers transporting individuals for certain treatment to take certain actions, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-41.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1844 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1844/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1844 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1844/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1844 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1844/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1844 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1844/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bean — primary (person)
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-07** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-27** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/01/22, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-02-01** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-01** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-02** Now in Judiciary
- **2022-02-02** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2022-02-03** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/07/22, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-07** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-08** 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
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Amendment(s) adopted (302042)
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** 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** CS passed; YEAS 117, 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. 2022-41

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe11893c-b37e-4b18-91dc-1756643b1018`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).