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type: "Bill"
title: "Child Welfare"
description: "Child Welfare; Requiring the Florida Court Educational Council to establish certain standards for instruction of circuit and county court judges for dependency cases; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to provide certain information to law enforcement officers relating to specified individuals; requiring Child Protection Teams to be capable of providing certain training relating to head trauma and brain injuries in children younger than a specified age; requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission to establish standards for the instruction of law enforcement officers in a specified subject, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 43"
citation: "Florida HB 43 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections", "social welfare", "judicial branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-40"
primary_sponsors: ["Latvala", "Valdes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-08-09"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddb199e6-ced7-4726-9398-57c62c33208f"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/43/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3b05a956338b76fcc1acc368bc3ebea8e4d136dc183ae5deab56805caf14676a"
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 HB 43 (2020) — Child Welfare
Child Welfare; Requiring the Florida Court Educational Council to establish certain standards for instruction of circuit and county court judges for dependency cases; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to provide certain information to law enforcement officers relating to specified individuals; requiring Child Protection Teams to be capable of providing certain training relating to head trauma and brain injuries in children younger than a specified age; requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission to establish standards for the instruction of law enforcement officers in a specified subject, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-40.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 43 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/43/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 43 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/43/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 43 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/43/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 43 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/43/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Appropriations Committee) — **290** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — **130** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Health & Human Services Committee) — **150** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **1170** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **1130** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Latvala — primary (person)
- Valdes — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-08-09** Filed `filing`
- **2019-09-23** Referred to Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-17** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee, 10/24/19, 9:30 am, 12 HOB
- **2019-10-24** Favorable by Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-10-24** Now in Appropriations Committee
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-27** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee, 01/29/20, 12:30 pm, Webster Hall
- **2020-01-29** Favorable by Appropriations Committee; YEAS 29 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-29** Now in Health and Human Services Committee
- **2020-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/06/20, 12:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-06** CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-07** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-07** CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** CS passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-02-26** In Messages
- **2020-02-27** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Received
- **2020-03-05** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-05** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 122
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Amendment(s) adopted (755426)
- **2020-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-06** In returning messages
- **2020-03-12** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (755426)
- **2020-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** 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. 2020-40
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ddb199e6-ced7-4726-9398-57c62c33208f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).