---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adoption"
description: "Adoption; Specifying that certain adoption consents are valid, binding, and enforceable by the court; deleting a provision regarding the sufficiency of the home study provided by the adoption entity; requiring the court to order the transfer of custody of the child to the prospective adoptive parents under certain circumstances and in accordance with a certain transition plan; requiring the adoption entity to provide monthly supervision reports for a specified time; providing that a person contemplating adoption of a child may make specified payments to the mother of the child for a specified period of time regardless of whether the medical needs of the mother require such support, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1322"
citation: "Florida SB 1322 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["civil practice and procedure"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-257"
primary_sponsors: ["Grall", "Judiciary", "Rules"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-01"
last_action: "2023-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43b1a821-9b08-4e16-8d8d-28bd22a90574"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1322/ByCategory"
source_hash: "314d33ffe0d0efa9f2055c3fff06d141a2a138c9ff6bd93aae44832d81901c6d"
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 1322 (2023) — Adoption

Adoption; Specifying that certain adoption consents are valid, binding, and enforceable by the court; deleting a provision regarding the sufficiency of the home study provided by the adoption entity; requiring the court to order the transfer of custody of the child to the prospective adoptive parents under certain circumstances and in accordance with a certain transition plan; requiring the adoption entity to provide monthly supervision reports for a specified time; providing that a person contemplating adoption of a child may make specified payments to the mother of the child for a specified period of time regardless of whether the medical needs of the mother require such support, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-257.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1322 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1322/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1322 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1322/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1322 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1322/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1322 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1322/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Grall — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-01** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-06** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/20/23, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-20** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-20** Now in Judiciary
- **2023-03-30** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 04/04/23, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-04** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-05** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-05** Now in Rules
- **2023-04-11** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2023-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/19/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-19** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-21** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/27/23
- **2023-04-25** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2023-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-27** 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 2) `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 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-20** Chapter No. 2023-257

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43b1a821-9b08-4e16-8d8d-28bd22a90574`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).