---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile Justice"
description: "Juvenile Justice; Providing for appointment of counsel in certain circumstances; providing for payment of counsel; revising provisions for a child’s punishment for contempt of court; revising provisions related to case staffing and to services and treatment related to a family in need of services; authorizing that a child be taken into custody pursuant to a finding of contempt; providing for early truancy intervention; providing for additional services to be ordered if a student is found to be a truant status offender; specifying when a guardian ad litem may be appointed, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1344"
citation: "Florida SB 1344 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes", "domestic relations", "limitations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-153"
primary_sponsors: ["Simon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0302071d-bd2d-408c-86a2-26db95d93637"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1344/ByCategory"
source_hash: "919f8df9f3723beddc475f7b54f3e743a2e8f1bc85639a0086b84f33d7541358"
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 1344 (2025) — Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Justice; Providing for appointment of counsel in certain circumstances; providing for payment of counsel; revising provisions for a child’s punishment for contempt of court; revising provisions related to case staffing and to services and treatment related to a family in need of services; authorizing that a child be taken into custody pursuant to a finding of contempt; providing for early truancy intervention; providing for additional services to be ordered if a student is found to be a truant status offender; specifying when a guardian ad litem may be appointed, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-153.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1344 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1344/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1344 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1344/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1344 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1344/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1344 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1344/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 1344 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1344/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Criminal Justice — primary (organization)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
- Simon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-06** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-25** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-27** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-27** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2025-04-02** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2025-04-07** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 04/10/25, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-04-10** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-14** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-04-15** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- **2025-04-16** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/17/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-17** CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-18** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/25
- **2025-04-22** CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** 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 3) `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 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** 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. 2025-153

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0302071d-bd2d-408c-86a2-26db95d93637`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).