---
type: "Bill"
title: "Parenting and Time-sharing of Minor Children"
description: "Parenting and Time-sharing of Minor Children; Removes requirement for unanticipated change in circumstances in order to modify parenting plan or time-sharing schedule; creates rebuttable presumption that equal time-sharing is in best interests of child; provides standard of evidence to rebut such presumption; requires court to evaluate certain factors & make specific written findings of fact when creating or modifying time-sharing schedule; authorizes modification of time-sharing schedule."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1301"
citation: "Florida HB 1301 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["civil practice and procedure"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-301"
primary_sponsors: ["Persons-Mulicka"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-01"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/392e9134-1e0a-4f0c-80a3-7670b62ca811"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1301/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0f258a7307a6811b34d6c7449bc16974d78c794d4fd937b392c22378ba1e8cbb"
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 HB 1301 (2023) — Parenting and Time-sharing of Minor Children

Parenting and Time-sharing of Minor Children; Removes requirement for unanticipated change in circumstances in order to modify parenting plan or time-sharing schedule; creates rebuttable presumption that equal time-sharing is in best interests of child; provides standard of evidence to rebut such presumption; requires court to evaluate certain factors & make specific written findings of fact when creating or modifying time-sharing schedule; authorizes modification of time-sharing schedule.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-301.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1301 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1301/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1301 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1301/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1301 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1301/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **105–7** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **34–3** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Civil Justice Subcommittee) — **11–4** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Judiciary Committee) — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- Persons-Mulicka — primary (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
- Borrero — cosponsor (person)
- Daniels — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Leek — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
- Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-01** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-06** Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-16** Added to Civil Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-20** Favorable by Civil Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-20** Reported out of Civil Justice Subcommittee
- **2023-03-20** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2023-04-07** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2023-04-11** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-12** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2023-04-12** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-12** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-12** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-13** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-13** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 105, NAYS 7 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-04-28** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2023-04-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-28** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1292
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** In Messages
- **2023-04-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-29** Chapter No. 2023-301; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 1416 (Ch. 2023-315)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/392e9134-1e0a-4f0c-80a3-7670b62ca811`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).