---
type: "Bill"
title: "Trauma Screening for Children Removed from Caregivers"
description: "Trauma Screening for Children Removed from Caregivers; Requiring the Department of Children and Families or community-based care lead agency to conduct a trauma screening after a child’s removal from his or her home within a certain timeframe; requiring the department or community-based care lead agency to refer the child for a trauma assessment, if indicated appropriate or necessary by the screening, within a certain timeframe; requiring the department or community-based lead agency to refer the child to services and intervention, as needed, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1064"
citation: "Florida SB 1064 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["judicial branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-254"
primary_sponsors: ["Children, Families, and Elder Affairs", "Fiscal Policy", "Yarborough"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-22"
last_action: "2023-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b76a00f3-2310-489e-8a68-a3a68b21af2b"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1064/ByCategory"
source_hash: "cbfbe0c0b8f0d6f051dda3fb0e3ea5a4074d02607b67114bec65b3e92af8a69c"
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 1064 (2023) — Trauma Screening for Children Removed from Caregivers

Trauma Screening for Children Removed from Caregivers; Requiring the Department of Children and Families or community-based care lead agency to conduct a trauma screening after a child’s removal from his or her home within a certain timeframe; requiring the department or community-based care lead agency to refer the child for a trauma assessment, if indicated appropriate or necessary by the screening, within a certain timeframe; requiring the department or community-based lead agency to refer the child to services and intervention, as needed, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-254.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1064 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1064/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1064 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1064/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1064 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1064/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1064 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1064/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 1064 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1064/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **114–2** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Yarborough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-22** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/14/23, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-14** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-15** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2023-03-15** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 04/12/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-12** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-14** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-04-17** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
- **2023-04-20** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/25/23, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-25** CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/23
- **2023-04-26** CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** In Messages
- **2023-05-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-05-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/2/2023)
- **2023-05-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-16** Chapter No. 2023-254

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b76a00f3-2310-489e-8a68-a3a68b21af2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).