---
type: "Bill"
title: "Problem-solving Court Reports"
description: "Problem-solving Court Reports; Requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to provide a problem-solving court report to the Legislature annually by a specified date; requiring specified court programs to collect certain data and information for program evaluation; requiring each such court program to report such data and information annually to the office, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 820"
citation: "Florida SB 820 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-139"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-09"
last_action: "2026-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0ff3a55-d319-42d5-9cd1-c764e6c74e62"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/820/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8415e3b3270b2f57e2f36ad46ced851e043783e5cbd81387ccf152b652da5f49"
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 820 (2026) — Problem-solving Court Reports

Problem-solving Court Reports; Requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to provide a problem-solving court report to the Legislature annually by a specified date; requiring specified court programs to collect certain data and information for program evaluation; requiring each such court program to report such data and information annually to the office, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-139.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 820 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/820/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 820 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/820/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 820 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/820/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Bradley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-09** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-16** Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/27/26, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-01-27** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-27** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2026-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/04/26, 3:45 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-02-04** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-06** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-06** Now in Rules
- **2026-02-10** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- **2026-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/17/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-17** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-18** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-19** 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 (Committee Substitute 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 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-12** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-12** Chapter No. 2026-139

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0ff3a55-d319-42d5-9cd1-c764e6c74e62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).