---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care"
description: "Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care; Citing this act as the “Nancy C. Detert Champion for Children Act”; requiring a case manager or other staff to provide a child with verbal and written information about certain topics; deleting limitations on the type of questions a child may ask; establishing the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman within the Department of Children and Families; requiring the department to consult with specified children and young adults when creating or revising certain print or digital written information, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 272"
citation: "Florida SB 272 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)", "judicial branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-248"
primary_sponsors: ["Children, Families, and Elder Affairs", "Garcia"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2023-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68454449-9181-4e14-9133-96c1250d24fa"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f88d16700d8c4a51b4c28e527e262c04e487a086f4375bf9af8dd3e3d29a5a87"
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 272 (2023) — Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care

Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care; Citing this act as the “Nancy C. Detert Champion for Children Act”; requiring a case manager or other staff to provide a child with verbal and written information about certain topics; deleting limitations on the type of questions a child may ask; establishing the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman within the Department of Children and Families; requiring the department to consult with specified children and young adults when creating or revising certain print or digital written information, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-248.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 272 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 272 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 272 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 272 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/272/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)
- Garcia — primary (person)
- Berman — cosponsor (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)
- Osgood — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18** Filed `filing`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-30** 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** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-20** 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`
- **2023-04-25** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/27/23
- **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
- **2023-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/1/2023)
- **2023-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `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 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** 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. 2023-248

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68454449-9181-4e14-9133-96c1250d24fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).