---
type: "Bill"
title: "Level 2 Background Screenings"
description: "Level 2 Background Screenings; Requiring persons with an affiliation to certain qualified entities to undergo security background investigations; authorizing the head of a qualified entity to grant a person with an affiliation an exemption from disqualification under certain circumstances; authorizing certain qualified entities to participate in the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse beginning on a specified date; expanding the agencies and entities which may use the Criminal Justice Information Program; requiring the agency to make certain determinations regarding the eligibility of certain noninstructional contractors beginning on a specified date, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 676"
citation: "Florida SB 676 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)", "(vetoed)", "domestic relations", "judicial branch", "labor"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-220"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Grall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-09"
last_action: "2023-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5192971-d7ac-40d4-b201-7d1e628c01a9"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/676/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5dc514ed040a3b4e559d0d11e63e19324eec0d496b0d166fb7cfd283f7aba94c"
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 676 (2023) — Level 2 Background Screenings

Level 2 Background Screenings; Requiring persons with an affiliation to certain qualified entities to undergo security background investigations; authorizing the head of a qualified entity to grant a person with an affiliation an exemption from disqualification under certain circumstances; authorizing certain qualified entities to participate in the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse beginning on a specified date; expanding the agencies and entities which may use the Criminal Justice Information Program; requiring the agency to make certain determinations regarding the eligibility of certain noninstructional contractors beginning on a specified date, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-220.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 676 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/676/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 676 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/676/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 676 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/676/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 676 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/676/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Grall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-09** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-16** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-08** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/13/23, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-13** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 04/12/23, 11:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-04-12** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-13** Now in Appropriations
- **2023-04-20** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/25/23, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-04-25** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/23
- **2023-04-26** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **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
- **2023-05-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-05-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/2/2023)
- **2023-05-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 797383 adopted
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 947129 adopted as amended
- **2023-05-02** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 955767 engrossed amendment (replaces 947129, 797383)
- **2023-05-02** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** In returning messages
- **2023-05-03** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (955767)
- **2023-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-12** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-16** Chapter No. 2023-220

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5192971-d7ac-40d4-b201-7d1e628c01a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).