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type: "Bill"
title: "Substance Abuse Services"
description: "Substance Abuse Services; Providing criminal penalties for making certain false representations or omissions of material facts when applying for service provider licenses; requiring the Department of Children and Families to suspend a service providers license under certain circumstances; expanding the applicability of certain exemptions for disqualification to applications for certification of a recovery residence or a recovery residence administrator, respectively; specifying that certain dwellings converted to recovery residences do not have a change of occupancy under the Florida Building Code due to such conversion, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 804"
citation: "Florida SB 804 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-128"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-26"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/906cc81e-4467-478f-bfc8-6381c04e3c24"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/804/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3dfe2360dcfc99df256ec32413cc39d41ba9c2040bcab5a4b75a6916501ffcb7"
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 804 (2021) — Substance Abuse Services
Substance Abuse Services; Providing criminal penalties for making certain false representations or omissions of material facts when applying for service provider licenses; requiring the Department of Children and Families to suspend a service providers license under certain circumstances; expanding the applicability of certain exemptions for disqualification to applications for certification of a recovery residence or a recovery residence administrator, respectively; specifying that certain dwellings converted to recovery residences do not have a change of occupancy under the Florida Building Code due to such conversion, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-128.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 804 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/804/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 804 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/804/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 804 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/804/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 804 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/804/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **80** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1150** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **80** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **160** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Harrell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-26** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-04** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/02/21, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-03** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-05** Now in Community Affairs
- **2021-03-10** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2021-03-19** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/24/21, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-24** CS/CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-24** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-25** CS/CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2021-03-29** Now in Rules
- **2021-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/16/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-16** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-16** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/21/21
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-128
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/906cc81e-4467-478f-bfc8-6381c04e3c24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).