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Bill	Child Welfare	Child Welfare; Requiring the case record of every child under the supervision or in the custody of the Department of Children and Families, the department’s agents, or providers contracting with the department to include a case record face sheet; providing best interest factors that certain entities must consider when determining a proposed placement for a child; providing conditions under which a child may be removed from a caregiver’s home; requiring judicial review hearings within a specified time after a child’s specified birthday; providing that parental rights may be reinstated under certain conditions, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2021	SB 80	Florida SB 80 (2021)	bill		enacted	2021-169	Brodeur	5	49	6	2021-01-12	2021-07-06	openstates	ocd-bill/08a4db18-4181-4001-b019-ca62c5f2e268	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/80/ByCategory	5f562c9272d1ea694adfdb65d067b8e27bc6d221b11f8a9ff125e667d91f41b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 80 (2021) — Child Welfare

Child Welfare; Requiring the case record of every child under the supervision or in the custody of the Department of Children and Families, the department’s agents, or providers contracting with the department to include a case record face sheet; providing best interest factors that certain entities must consider when determining a proposed placement for a child; providing conditions under which a child may be removed from a caregiver’s home; requiring judicial review hearings within a specified time after a child’s specified birthday; providing that parental rights may be reinstated under certain conditions, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-169.

Version chain

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

1. S 80 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 80 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 80 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 80 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 80 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Returning Messages — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brodeur — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-12 Filed filing
• 2021-01-14 Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Rules referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/16/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2021-02-16 CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• 2021-02-18 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2021-02-18 Original reference(s) removed: Judiciary
• 2021-02-18 Remaining references corrected to Appropriations; Rules
• 2021-02-18 Now in Appropriations
• 2021-03-01 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/04/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2021-03-02 Introduced introduction
• 2021-03-02 CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
• 2021-03-04 Favorable by Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-04 Now in Rules
• 2021-03-08 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/11/21, 8:15 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2021-03-11 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
• 2021-03-15 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2021-03-15 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2021-03-15 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/18/21
• 2021-03-16 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2021-03-18 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-03-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-03-18 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2021-03-18 Immediately certified
• 2021-03-18 In Messages
• 2021-04-26 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2021-04-26 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
• 2021-04-26 Amendment 839537 filed
• 2021-04-26 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 595537 filed
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 839537 withdrawn
• 2021-04-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 595537 adopted
• 2021-04-27 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2021-04-27 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 325815 filed
• 2021-04-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-28 Amendment 325815 adopted
• 2021-04-28 CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 passage
• 2021-04-28 Amendment 325815 replaced by engrossed amendment
• 2021-04-28 Amendment 595537 replaced by engrossed amendment
• 2021-04-28 Amendment 943257 engrossed amendment (replaces 595537, 325815)
• 2021-04-28 In returning messages
• 2021-04-28 Message sent to senate
• 2021-04-28 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (943257)
• 2021-04-28 CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2021-04-28 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
• 2021-06-28 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2021-06-29 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-07-06 Chapter No. 2021-169

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/08a4db18-4181-4001-b019-ca62c5f2e268. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).