---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health and Substance Abuse"
description: "Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Revises written notice requirements relating to filing petitions for involuntary services; revises requirements relating to voluntary admissions to facility for examination & treatment, ordering person for involuntary services & treatment, petitions for involuntary service, appointment of counsel, & continuances of hearings; revises actions that constitute unlawful activities relating to assessment & treatment & court actions relating to involuntary assessments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 7021"
citation: "Florida HB 7021 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["domestic relations", "social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-245"
primary_sponsors: ["Maney"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 48
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7526b809-c7d7-4edb-9421-e3a1317d7188"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7021/ByCategory"
source_hash: "4a15f34aa2e716d7f73f21df2d20643de09b1a634cd0623dba30a5b1e7e28809"
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 HB 7021 (2024) — Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Revises written notice requirements relating to filing petitions for involuntary services; revises requirements relating to voluntary admissions to facility for examination & treatment, ordering person for involuntary services & treatment, petitions for involuntary service, appointment of counsel, & continuances of hearings; revises actions that constitute unlawful activities relating to assessment & treatment & court actions relating to involuntary assessments.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-245.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 7021 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7021/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 7021 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7021/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 7021 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7021/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 7021 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7021/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 7021 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7021/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 7021 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7021/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Maney — primary (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Botana — cosponsor (person)
- Caruso — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Silvers — cosponsor (person)
- Stark — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-01-22** Added to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-24** Favorable with CS by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-25** Reported out of Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-01-25** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-25** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-26** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-01-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2024-02-15** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-19** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-19** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-19** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-21** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2024)
- **2024-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** Amendment 473603 adopted
- **2024-03-01** Amendment 238169 adopted as amended
- **2024-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-07** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-07** Substituted for CS/SB 1784
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Amendment(s) adopted (271428)
- **2024-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-08** In Messages
- **2024-03-08** Added to Senate Message List
- **2024-03-08** Amendment 271428 Concur
- **2024-03-08** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-06-10** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-14** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-14** Chapter No. 2024-245; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 7016 (Ch. 2024-15)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7526b809-c7d7-4edb-9421-e3a1317d7188`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).