republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2020/sb-7012.md

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Bill	Substance Abuse and Mental Health	Substance Abuse and Mental Health; Providing additional duties for the Statewide Office for Suicide Prevention; requiring the Department of Transportation to work with the office in developing a plan relating to evidence-based suicide deterrents in certain locations; requiring that certain information be provided to the guardian or representative of a minor patient released from involuntary examination; requiring the maintenance of psychotropic medications to specified defendants under certain circumstances, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 7012	Florida SB 7012 (2020)	bill	(vetoed) domestic relations	enacted	2020-39	Children Families and Elder Affairs	5	36	5	2019-11-05	2020-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/dd6b8847-3141-4147-9031-287305b14309	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/7012/ByCategory	07a1a02840209a0910207ebfa843a033c51aa61689a411a03695a5c0c69a3497	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 7012 (2020) — Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Substance Abuse and Mental Health; Providing additional duties for the Statewide Office for Suicide Prevention; requiring the Department of Transportation to work with the office in developing a plan relating to evidence-based suicide deterrents in certain locations; requiring that certain information be provided to the guardian or representative of a minor patient released from involuntary examination; requiring the maintenance of psychotropic medications to specified defendants under certain circumstances, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-39.

Version chain

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

1. S 7012 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 7012 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 7012 pb (committee substitute) — source
4. S 7012 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 7012 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 118–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Children — primary (person)
• Families — primary (person)
• and Elder Affairs — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-11-05 Submitted for consideration by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
• 2019-11-05 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 11/12/19, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2019-11-12 Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
• 2019-11-13 Filed filing
• 2019-11-21 Referred to Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-02-10 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/13/20, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2020-02-13 Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
• 2020-02-17 Now in Appropriations
• 2020-02-17 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/20/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
• 2020-02-24 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/27/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2020-02-27 CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
• 2020-03-02 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-03-02 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-03-02 CS by Appropriations read 1st time
• 2020-03-02 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/20
• 2020-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-04 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-05 CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-05 In Messages
• 2020-03-09 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Received
• 2020-03-10 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
• 2020-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Amendment(s) adopted (541211) -HJ 1055, 1061
• 2020-03-10 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-11 CS passed as amended; YEAS 118 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-11 In returning messages
• 2020-03-13 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (541211)
• 2020-03-13 CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 -SJ 887, 888 passage
• 2020-03-13 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
• 2020-06-03 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-18 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-19 Chapter No. 2020-39

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd6b8847-3141-4147-9031-287305b14309. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).