---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Corrections"
description: "Department of Corrections; Defining the terms “private correctional facility” and “volunteer”; providing criminal penalties for any volunteer or employee of a contractor or subcontractor of the Department of Corrections who engages in sexual misconduct with specified inmates or offenders; providing for a type two transfer of private correctional facilities from the Department of Management Services to the Department of Corrections, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 7016"
citation: "Florida SB 7016 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections", "public business"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-268"
primary_sponsors: ["Criminal Justice", "Fiscal Policy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-08"
last_action: "2023-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbda0d28-eca7-4e22-bc12-f1fe376a1004"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7016/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8c009340e98ec9ce39a109f6a5545ea940b95636a42555dfc96e3ba95769b106"
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 7016 (2023) — Department of Corrections

Department of Corrections; Defining the terms “private correctional facility” and “volunteer”; providing criminal penalties for any volunteer or employee of a contractor or subcontractor of the Department of Corrections who engages in sexual misconduct with specified inmates or offenders; providing for a type two transfer of private correctional facilities from the Department of Management Services to the Department of Corrections, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-268.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 7016 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7016/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 7016 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7016/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 7016 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7016/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 7016 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7016/BillText/pb/HTML)
5. **S 7016 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7016/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Criminal Justice — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — 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 Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/21/23, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-21** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-23** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-23** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-03-23** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- **2023-04-10** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/13/23, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-13** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-14** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-14** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-14** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/19/23
- **2023-04-17** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2023-04-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Immediately certified
- **2023-04-19** 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 2) `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** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-22** Chapter No. 2023-268

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbda0d28-eca7-4e22-bc12-f1fe376a1004`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).