---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substance Abuse Services"
description: "Substance Abuse Services; Revising application requirements for licensure as a substance abuse service provider; requiring the Department of Children and Families to establish, by a specified date, a mechanism to impose and collect fines for certain violations of law; revising credentialing requirements for recovery residences; prohibiting service providers from referring patients to, or accepting referrals from, specified recovery residences, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 210"
citation: "Florida SB 210 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-298"
primary_sponsors: ["Children, Families, and Elder Affairs", "Harrell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd6f2529-eb4e-4dde-956a-e58dd916331a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/210/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b307968c4bf7dd3ad4be32601db9d4d7a5501811bb8afe08af5be8d73e6d83e2"
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 210 (2023) — Substance Abuse Services

Substance Abuse Services; Revising application requirements for licensure as a substance abuse service provider; requiring the Department of Children and Families to establish, by a specified date, a mechanism to impose and collect fines for certain violations of law; revising credentialing requirements for recovery residences; prohibiting service providers from referring patients to, or accepting referrals from, specified recovery residences, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-298.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 210 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/210/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 210 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/210/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 210 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/210/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **15–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** Filed `filing`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/14/23, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-02-14** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2023-02-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-02-16** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2023-03-03** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/08/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-07** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2023-03-08** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 15 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-09** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/23/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-23** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-03-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/30/23
- **2023-03-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-30** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-30** Immediately certified
- **2023-03-31** 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** 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; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** 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. 2023-298

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd6f2529-eb4e-4dde-956a-e58dd916331a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).