---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substance Abuse Service Providers"
description: "Substance Abuse Service Providers; Revising the types of expenditures for district programs and services which are eligible for state payment; requiring service provider applicants to include the names and locations of certain recovery residences in their license application; requiring service providers to record specified information in the Department of Children and Families’ Provider Licensure and Designations System after a specified date; requiring certified recovery residence administrators to demonstrate the ability to meet specified requirements; requiring service providers to return an individual’s personal effects upon the individual’s discharge, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 704"
citation: "Florida SB 704 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-31"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-10-28"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6d039be-5a91-449f-a0cd-9f2d3f504b1f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/704/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6f621c33a26da2d0da67709829efa111ceba6280b77cc6acdc506e38f6f04715"
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 704 (2022) — Substance Abuse Service Providers

Substance Abuse Service Providers; Revising the types of expenditures for district programs and services which are eligible for state payment; requiring service provider applicants to include the names and locations of certain recovery residences in their license application; requiring service providers to record specified information in the Department of Children and Families’ Provider Licensure and Designations System after a specified date; requiring certified recovery residence administrators to demonstrate the ability to meet specified requirements; requiring service providers to return an individual’s personal effects upon the individual’s discharge, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-31.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 704 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/704/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 704 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/704/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 704 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/704/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harrell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-28** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-16** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 11/30/21, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-11-30** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-30** Now in Community Affairs
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/18/22, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-18** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-19** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-27** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-01-31** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/03/22
- **2022-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** Amendment(s) adopted (439416)
- **2022-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** Passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-03** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-03** In Messages
- **2022-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2022)
- **2022-03-01** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for CS/HB 479
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** 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. 2022-31

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6d039be-5a91-449f-a0cd-9f2d3f504b1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).