---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Welfare"
description: "Child Welfare; Revising payment rates for relative and nonrelative caregivers under the Relative Caregiver Program; revising and specifying room and board rates paid by the Department of Children and Families; revising fee waiver eligibility for students who are or were placed in the custody of a relative or nonrelative to include certain students; creating a tuition and fee exemption for students who enter the custody of the department after a specified age and who are reunited with their parent or parents before reaching a specified age and after spending at least 18 months in out-of-home care, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 7034"
citation: "Florida SB 7034 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["judicial branch", "public health", "social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-68"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Children, Families, and Elder Affairs"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/816b9468-0bc1-442d-adb8-d72185bb0737"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7034/ByCategory"
source_hash: "10fe11fc64e038fdf6cd5b51c348f171daab63e1490d79f3c723ab0fc3dd95f2"
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 7034 (2022) — Child Welfare

Child Welfare; Revising payment rates for relative and nonrelative caregivers under the Relative Caregiver Program; revising and specifying room and board rates paid by the Department of Children and Families; revising fee waiver eligibility for students who are or were placed in the custody of a relative or nonrelative to include certain students; creating a tuition and fee exemption for students who enter the custody of the department after a specified age and who are reunited with their parent or parents before reaching a specified age and after spending at least 18 months in out-of-home care, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-68.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 7034 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7034/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 7034 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7034/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 7034 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7034/BillText/pb/HTML)
4. **S 7034 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7034/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** Submitted for consideration by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- **2022-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/18/22, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-18** Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-18** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-26** Referred to Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-28** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/02/22, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-02** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-04** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/09/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2022-02-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/21/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-21** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-22** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/23/22
- **2022-02-22** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** CS passed; YEAS 39 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** 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 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-04-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-12** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-12** Chapter No. 2022-68

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/816b9468-0bc1-442d-adb8-d72185bb0737`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).