---
type: "Bill"
title: "Surrendered Infants"
description: "Surrendered Infants ; Revises definition of \"infant\"; defines \"infant safety device\"; authorizes certain hospitals, EMS stations, & fire stations to use infant safety devices to accept surrendered infants if device meets specified criteria; requires such hospitals, EMS stations, & fire stations to monitor inside of device 24 hours per day & physically check & test devices at specified intervals; provides additional requirements for certain fire stations using such devices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 791"
citation: "Florida HB 791 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["judicial branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-17"
primary_sponsors: ["Cobb"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/433871bd-500c-41df-a46b-8770d9b1f50a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/791/ByCategory"
source_hash: "068af9445c9a2de54b7ed5ddfe6eaa4bfd8e1bf2c4cb3ec5d63a486c4ad88b1a"
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 791 (2025) — Surrendered Infants

Surrendered Infants ; Revises definition of "infant"; defines "infant safety device"; authorizes certain hospitals, EMS stations, & fire stations to use infant safety devices to accept surrendered infants if device meets specified criteria; requires such hospitals, EMS stations, & fire stations to monitor inside of device 24 hours per day & physically check & test devices at specified intervals; provides additional requirements for certain fire stations using such devices.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-17.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 791 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/791/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 791 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/791/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 791 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/791/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 791 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/791/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **33–4** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cobb — primary (person)
- Health & Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Kincart Jonsson — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-07** PCS added to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with CS by Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Reported out of Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
- **2025-03-12** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-12** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-12** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-03-20** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2025-03-24** Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2025-03-25** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-25** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-03-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/3/2025)
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** CS passed; YEAS 106, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-03** In Messages
- **2025-04-07** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-16** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-16** Substituted for SB 1690
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed; YEAS 33 NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-16** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-01** Chapter No. 2025-17

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/433871bd-500c-41df-a46b-8770d9b1f50a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).