---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults"
description: "Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults; Authorizing the use of substitute service on unascertainable respondents; requiring the court to enter an order providing for specified service when a petitioner files the sworn affidavit; requiring that any proposed transfer of funds or property in dispute be held for a specified time period, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 106"
citation: "Florida SB 106 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-158"
primary_sponsors: ["Martin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-12-18"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/908cd4b5-2b85-4c9e-90e7-21b5c01a0d26"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/106/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ebfb41f9dcf2df99252287e680f8a74bc505d469dd07f655cc0fa456087c46da"
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 106 (2025) — Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults

Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults; Authorizing the use of substitute service on unascertainable respondents; requiring the court to enter an order providing for specified service when a petitioner files the sworn affidavit; requiring that any proposed transfer of funds or property in dispute be held for a specified time period, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-158.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 106 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/106/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 106 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/106/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 106 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/106/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Martin — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-18** Filed `filing`
- **2025-01-15** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/04/25, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2025-03-04** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** Now in Judiciary
- **2025-03-07** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/12/25, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-12** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/19/25, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-19** CS by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-20** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-03-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/27/25
- **2025-03-26** CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Immediately certified
- **2025-03-27** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-158

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/908cd4b5-2b85-4c9e-90e7-21b5c01a0d26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).