---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Fatality Review Teams"
description: "Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Fatality Review Teams; Authorizing the establishment of elder and vulnerable adult abuse fatality review teams for certain purposes; authorizing a review team to determine the number and types of incidents to review; modifying the prohibition from contacting, interviewing, or obtaining information from the family of a victim; providing that communications, information, and records produced or acquired by a review team are not subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in certain proceedings under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1540"
citation: "Florida SB 1540 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(passed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-260"
primary_sponsors: ["Children, Families, and Elder Affairs", "Garcia"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-03-03"
last_action: "2023-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3e1899a-e8b6-4e6e-84b5-f07de6680113"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1540/ByCategory"
source_hash: "67d347bd66fdaf0c1284146b4ca0336d7d440d7b75e71b87cf7273a42daafea3"
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 1540 (2023) — Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Fatality Review Teams

Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Fatality Review Teams; Authorizing the establishment of elder and vulnerable adult abuse fatality review teams for certain purposes; authorizing a review team to determine the number and types of incidents to review; modifying the prohibition from contacting, interviewing, or obtaining information from the family of a victim; providing that communications, information, and records produced or acquired by a review team are not subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in certain proceedings under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-260.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1540 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1540/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1540 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1540/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1540 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1540/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1540 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1540/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)
- Garcia — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-03** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-30** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 04/04/23, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-04-04** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-06** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-06** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2023-04-11** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2023-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 04/18/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-18** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-04-20** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/25/23, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-25** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/23
- **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
- **2023-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/1/2023)
- **2023-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 255691 adopted
- **2023-05-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 119, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** In returning messages
- **2023-05-03** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (255691)
- **2023-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered engrossed, then 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. 2023-260, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 1542 (Ch. 2023-261)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3e1899a-e8b6-4e6e-84b5-f07de6680113`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).