---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records/Lethality Assessment Forms"
description: "Public Records/Lethality Assessment Forms; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for a lethality assessment form that contains certain information and responses; authorizing the disclosure of a lethality assessment form to a domestic violence center and to the office of the state attorney; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1640"
citation: "Florida SB 1640 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["domestic relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-89"
primary_sponsors: ["Grall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3612702-4a90-462b-ba13-be60f954a8d2"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1640/ByCategory"
source_hash: "fe9e0237d88a997c740b00272c0f5b819a3e0421d8d51c4f94e164d8083c04b5"
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 1640 (2025) — Public Records/Lethality Assessment Forms

Public Records/Lethality Assessment Forms; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for a lethality assessment form that contains certain information and responses; authorizing the disclosure of a lethality assessment form to a domestic violence center and to the office of the state attorney; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-89.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1640 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1640/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1640 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1640/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1640 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1640/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1640 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1640/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (organization)
- Grall — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-28** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-07** Referred to Criminal Justice; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-18** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 04/01/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-04-01** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-02** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-02** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2025-04-03** Now in Rules
- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/08/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-08** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-08** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-09** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/23/25
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** 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 2) `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`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-27** Chapter No. 2025-89

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3612702-4a90-462b-ba13-be60f954a8d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).