---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile Justice"
description: "Juvenile Justice; Requiring that the secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice oversee the establishment of the Florida Scholars Academy; requiring the academy to provide students with greater access to secondary and postsecondary educational opportunities; specifying that the academy is a component of the delivery of public education within Florida’s Early Learning-20 education system; requiring the department to provide early notice to school districts regarding the siting of new juvenile justice detention facilities, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 7014"
citation: "Florida SB 7014 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-59"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Criminal Justice"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-08"
last_action: "2023-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4baefe48-6ce1-4f75-8dad-f879a4bee811"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7014/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a5c106ed023e905391ab3eedf86bfd496a5e88d3b6e28352ac21a6cd80486ca4"
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 7014 (2023) — Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Justice; Requiring that the secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice oversee the establishment of the Florida Scholars Academy; requiring the academy to provide students with greater access to secondary and postsecondary educational opportunities; specifying that the academy is a component of the delivery of public education within Florida’s Early Learning-20 education system; requiring the department to provide early notice to school districts regarding the siting of new juvenile justice detention facilities, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-59.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 7014 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7014/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 7014 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7014/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 7014 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7014/BillText/pb/HTML)
4. **S 7014 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7014/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 7014 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7014/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-08** Submitted for consideration by Criminal Justice
- **2023-03-08** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/13/23, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-13** Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Criminal Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-14** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-15** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/28/23, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-28** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-30** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-30** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-03-30** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2023-04-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/11/23
- **2023-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Amendment(s) adopted (495992, 825754)
- **2023-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-12** 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 (Engrossed 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`
- **2023-05-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-12** Chapter No. 2023-59

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4baefe48-6ce1-4f75-8dad-f879a4bee811`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).