---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children’s Initiatives"
description: "Children’s Initiatives; Establishing the Bay County 32401 Children’s Initiative in Bay County and the Pompano RYZE Children’s Initiative in Broward County; providing for the projects to be managed by not-for-profit corporations; declaring that the initiatives are subject to state public records and meeting requirements and procurement of commodities and contractual services requirements; requiring designated children’s initiatives to assist in the creation of community-based service networks and programming that provides certain services for children and families residing in disadvantaged areas of this state, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1022"
citation: "Florida SB 1022 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-100"
primary_sponsors: ["Polsky"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-29"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a55116c-c954-4ca5-9100-cd48b363a825"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1022/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2d89667af7dbf601b9e0eadf8353f61bdd894684fd2c52edc5a766e77da31462"
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 1022 (2026) — Children’s Initiatives

Children’s Initiatives; Establishing the Bay County 32401 Children’s Initiative in Bay County and the Pompano RYZE Children’s Initiative in Broward County; providing for the projects to be managed by not-for-profit corporations; declaring that the initiatives are subject to state public records and meeting requirements and procurement of commodities and contractual services requirements; requiring designated children’s initiatives to assist in the creation of community-based service networks and programming that provides certain services for children and families residing in disadvantaged areas of this state, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-100.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1022 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1022/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1022 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1022/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Polsky — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-29** Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-07** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-29** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/03/26, 1:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2026-02-03** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2026-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/12/26, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-12** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-12** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/18/26, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-18** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-26** Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-26** In Messages
- **2026-03-10** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
- **2026-03-10** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** Passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-05-11** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-26** Chapter No. 2026-100

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a55116c-c954-4ca5-9100-cd48b363a825`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).