---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans"
description: "Veterans; Requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to conduct a study that includes a survey evaluating the extent to which specified persons are aware of certain existing programs or services; requiring the department to ensure coordination to the greatest extent possible with the United States Department of Defense for a specified purpose; revising the purpose of the Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program to include specialized mental health training; requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to develop a plan to establish adult day health care facilities across this state to serve veterans and their families, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 116"
citation: "Florida SB 116 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["appropriations", "public lands and property", "veterans"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-146"
primary_sponsors: ["Burgess"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b35d6860-4782-4ee9-a357-bbb3ebcecf9a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/116/ByCategory"
source_hash: "eb492061789f934913edd99d08e6c15a64e6fb3c2a965575357e9e4d6a73c304"
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 116 (2025) — Veterans

Veterans; Requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to conduct a study that includes a survey evaluating the extent to which specified persons are aware of certain existing programs or services; requiring the department to ensure coordination to the greatest extent possible with the United States Department of Defense for a specified purpose; revising the purpose of the Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program to include specialized mental health training; requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to develop a plan to establish adult day health care facilities across this state to serve veterans and their families, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-146.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 116 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/116/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 116 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/116/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 116 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/116/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 116 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/116/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
- Burgess — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-05** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-06** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 02/18/25, 1:45 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2025-02-18** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2025-02-28** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/05/25, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-07** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-07** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-07** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/12/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-10** CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
- **2025-03-12** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-12** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-12** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-03-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-03-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/19/25
- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-19** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Immediately certified
- **2025-03-19** In Messages
- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 646315 adopted
- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In returning messages
- **2025-05-02** Refused to concur in 1 amendment(s) (646315)
- **2025-05-02** Requested House to recede
- **2025-05-02** In Messages
- **2025-05-02** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-02** Amendment 646315 Recede
- **2025-05-02** CS passed; YEAS 98, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-146

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b35d6860-4782-4ee9-a357-bbb3ebcecf9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).