---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans Affairs"
description: "Veterans Affairs; Revises admissions process for veterans treatment court programs; authorizes court, in consultation with multidisciplinary team, to determine eligibility for veterans treatment court programs; requires court to consider recommendation of state attorney when making eligibility determination; authorizes sentencing courts to divert defendants to veterans treatment court programs under certain circumstances; requires certain notice be provided to defendants; provides for disposition of probation or community control violations by program participants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 199"
citation: "Florida HB 199 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-128"
primary_sponsors: ["Maney"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-10-16"
last_action: "2026-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96e6d29a-7260-4072-9fda-c9aadcdcc1a0"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/199/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5c6fcc74824b302462b7a5872f7daa2d7cb5abb97cdb7988c7f8f31e7993f739"
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 HB 199 (2026) — Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs; Revises admissions process for veterans treatment court programs; authorizes court, in consultation with multidisciplinary team, to determine eligibility for veterans treatment court programs; requires court to consider recommendation of state attorney when making eligibility determination; authorizes sentencing courts to divert defendants to veterans treatment court programs under certain circumstances; requires certain notice be provided to defendants; provides for disposition of probation or community control violations by program participants.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-128.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 199 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/199/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 199 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/199/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 199 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/199/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 199 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/199/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- Maney — primary (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Benarroch — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Conerly — cosponsor (person)
- Daniels — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Tendrich — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-16** Filed `filing`
- **2025-10-21** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-21** Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-21** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-21** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-10-29** Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-11-05** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-05** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-11-05** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-11-05** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-11-07** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-07** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2025-12-04** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2025-12-11** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-12-11** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2025-12-11** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-12-11** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-12** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-01-13** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-01-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-01-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2026-01-13** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2026-01-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/4/2026)
- **2026-02-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-04** CS passed; YEAS 110, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-04** In Messages
- **2026-02-09** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Received `enrolled`
- **2026-02-26** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2026-02-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-26** Substituted for CS/SB 50
- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-26** In Messages
- **2026-02-26** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-12** Chapter No. 2026-128

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96e6d29a-7260-4072-9fda-c9aadcdcc1a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).