---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certified Recovery Residences"
description: "Certified Recovery Residences; Requiring, by a specified date, the governing body of each county or municipality to adopt an ordinance to establish procedures for the review and approval of certified recovery residences; prohibiting the ordinance from requiring public hearings beyond the minimum required by law; providing that the personnel-to-resident ratio for a certified recovery residence must be met only when the residents are at the residence, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 954"
citation: "Florida SB 954 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations", "public health"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-182"
primary_sponsors: ["Gruters"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf7d29cd-6103-4b9c-af09-6fc36e02579d"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/954/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ac9d9c20578ca8e1ae6349e029a37eae5f91e76a6e45c3470d77cd66bea32680"
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 954 (2025) — Certified Recovery Residences

Certified Recovery Residences; Requiring, by a specified date, the governing body of each county or municipality to adopt an ordinance to establish procedures for the review and approval of certified recovery residences; prohibiting the ordinance from requiring public hearings beyond the minimum required by law; providing that the personnel-to-resident ratio for a certified recovery residence must be met only when the residents are at the residence, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-182.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 954 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/954/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 954 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/954/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 954 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/954/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 954 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/954/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 954 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/954/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–2** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **97–10** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **23–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
- Community Affairs — primary (organization)
- Gruters — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)
- Rouson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Community Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/31/25, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-31** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 2
- **2025-04-02** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-02** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2025-04-03** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2025-04-10** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 04/15/25, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-15** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 7 NAYS 2
- **2025-04-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-17** Now in Rules
- **2025-04-17** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/21/25, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-21** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-22** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-22** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
- **2025-04-22** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-04-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/25
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** 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 3) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **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; YEAS 97, NAYS 10 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-26** Chapter No. 2025-182

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf7d29cd-6103-4b9c-af09-6fc36e02579d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).