---
type: "Bill"
title: "Problem-solving Courts"
description: "Problem-solving Courts; Revising the responsibilities of coordinators of treatment-based drug court programs; requiring such programs to collect specified data and information for certain purposes; requiring such programs to annually report certain information and data to the Office of the State Courts Administrator; authorizing courts to determine how long a person may be admitted into certain programs; revising admission requirements for certain programs; revising eligibility requirements for voluntary admission into certain substance abuse programs, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 508"
citation: "Florida SB 508 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-191"
primary_sponsors: ["Rouson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eff5b93a-bd70-4f74-b0a1-cf1029cc320a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/508/ByCategory"
source_hash: "41d2d5ed2511aeb357e30cd31d5fbe83b74d7ecd0f810af28b3ba3a36c32b02a"
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 508 (2023) — Problem-solving Courts

Problem-solving Courts; Revising the responsibilities of coordinators of treatment-based drug court programs; requiring such programs to collect specified data and information for certain purposes; requiring such programs to annually report certain information and data to the Office of the State Courts Administrator; authorizing courts to determine how long a person may be admitted into certain programs; revising admission requirements for certain programs; revising eligibility requirements for voluntary admission into certain substance abuse programs, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-191.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 508 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/508/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 508 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/508/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rouson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-16** Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/07/23, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-07** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-08** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2023-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/14/23, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-14** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-03-23** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/28/23, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-28** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-03-30** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/04/23
- **2023-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-04** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-04** Immediately certified
- **2023-04-05** 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 (Original Filed Version) `filing, 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** Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Chapter No. 2023-191

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eff5b93a-bd70-4f74-b0a1-cf1029cc320a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).