republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2020/sb-400.md

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Bill	Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams	Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams; Authorizing a state attorney, or his or her designee, to initiate an elder abuse fatality review team in his or her judicial circuit; authorizing elder abuse fatality review teams in existence on a certain date to continue to exist; requiring each review team to annually submit to the department a summary report containing specified information by a certain date; providing immunity from monetary liability for review team members under certain conditions, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 400	Florida SB 400 (2020)	bill	social welfare	enacted	2020-17	Gibson	3	34	5	2019-09-30	2020-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/b865b712-dac8-4032-8fd0-05ced3446354	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/400/ByCategory	1854b9f4dc513bc5e77de138a7ac631c5be97d6ac4408e3f73f00277717f326e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 400 (2020) — Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams

Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams; Authorizing a state attorney, or his or her designee, to initiate an elder abuse fatality review team in his or her judicial circuit; authorizing elder abuse fatality review teams in existence on a certain date to continue to exist; requiring each review team to annually submit to the department a summary report containing specified information by a certain date; providing immunity from monetary liability for review team members under certain conditions, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-17.

Version chain

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

1. S 400 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 400 e1 (engrossed) — source
3. S 400 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Returning Messages — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 37–1 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 18–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gibson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-09-30 Filed filing
• 2019-10-15 Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-10-28 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 11/05/19, 2:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2019-11-05 Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-11-05 Now in Judiciary
• 2019-12-02 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 12/10/19, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2019-12-10 Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-12-10 Now in Appropriations
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-17 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 01/23/20, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2020-01-23 Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-23 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-01-27 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/20
• 2020-01-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-01-29 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-02-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-02-04 Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 1 passage
• 2020-02-04 Immediately certified
• 2020-02-04 In Messages
• 2020-03-06 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2020-03-06 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
• 2020-03-06 Received
• 2020-03-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-09 Amendment(s) adopted (641173) -HJ 993, 994
• 2020-03-09 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-10 Passed as amended; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-10 In returning messages
• 2020-03-12 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (641173)
• 2020-03-12 Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-12 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
• 2020-05-26 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-09 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-10 Chapter No. 2020-17

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b865b712-dac8-4032-8fd0-05ced3446354. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).