---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sheriffs Providing Child Protective Investigative Services"
description: "Sheriffs Providing Child Protective Investigative Services; Removes provisions of law relating to sheriffs of certain counties providing child protective investigative services; requires sheriffs to transfer its CPI service functions to DCF; specifies which entity becomes custodian of files & documents; provides requirements for all grants & grant-related assets; authorizes DCF to extend private leases; authorizes DCF & sheriffs to enter into specified agreement; authorizes employees to transfer their employment to DCF; requires DCF to establish positions for such employees; provides benefits to employees who transfer their employment to DCF; requiring that the defense and indemnification of certain claims be in accordance with certain agreements, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 7061"
citation: "Florida HB 7061 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)", "judicial branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-77"
primary_sponsors: ["Koster"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-04-12"
last_action: "2023-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78fd3259-a262-4628-9cb8-f7b380738726"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7061/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a5ea39b53fd369937d849487b4b261b074facd03f51935b2db9e810f730bfb61"
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 7061 (2023) — Sheriffs Providing Child Protective Investigative Services

Sheriffs Providing Child Protective Investigative Services; Removes provisions of law relating to sheriffs of certain counties providing child protective investigative services; requires sheriffs to transfer its CPI service functions to DCF; specifies which entity becomes custodian of files & documents; provides requirements for all grants & grant-related assets; authorizes DCF to extend private leases; authorizes DCF & sheriffs to enter into specified agreement; authorizes employees to transfer their employment to DCF; requires DCF to establish positions for such employees; provides benefits to employees who transfer their employment to DCF; requiring that the defense and indemnification of certain claims be in accordance with certain agreements, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-77.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 7061 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7061/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 7061 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7061/BillText/e1/PDF)
3. **H 7061 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7061/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Appropriations Committee) — **27–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Koster — primary (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-12** Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-13** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** Now in Appropriations Committee
- **2023-04-13** Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
- **2023-04-13** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-04-17** Favorable by Appropriations Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-17** Reported out of Appropriations Committee
- **2023-04-17** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2023-04-17** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
- **2023-04-25** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **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** Passed; YEAS 105, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-02** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-02** Substituted for SB 7056
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Amendment(s) adopted (459628)
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** In Messages
- **2023-05-03** Added to Senate Message List
- **2023-05-03** Passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Amendment 459628 Concur
- **2023-05-03** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-12** Chapter No. 2023-77

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78fd3259-a262-4628-9cb8-f7b380738726`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).