---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recovery Residences"
description: "Recovery Residences; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to require only a level 2 background screening for certain individuals under certain circumstances; prohibiting the department from requiring certain existing licensed service providers to admit individuals for services during the probationary licensing period if certain requirements and conditions are met, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1030"
citation: "Florida SB 1030 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-123"
primary_sponsors: ["Gruters"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-30"
last_action: "2026-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5dd06e6d-bb7b-41f6-b298-8c496689c244"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1030/ByCategory"
source_hash: "53023abb12da617d2712390c759dfa09b86f6d67e1705361e7493dedea61997d"
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 1030 (2026) — Recovery Residences

Recovery Residences; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to require only a level 2 background screening for certain individuals under certain circumstances; prohibiting the department from requiring certain existing licensed service providers to admit individuals for services during the probationary licensing period if certain requirements and conditions are met, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-123.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1030 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1030/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1030 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1030/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1030 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1030/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1030 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1030/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1030 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1030/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (organization)
- Gruters — primary (person)
- Rouson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-30** Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-07** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/27/26, 1:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2026-01-27** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2026-01-28** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-01-28** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2026-01-29** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **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** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-16** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-16** Now in Rules
- **2026-02-18** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
- **2026-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/24/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-24** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 22 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** Amendment(s) adopted (260270)
- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-26** In Messages
- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** CS passed; YEAS 106, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** 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. 2026-123

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5dd06e6d-bb7b-41f6-b298-8c496689c244`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).