republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2020/sb-1326.md

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Bill	Child Welfare	Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to establish performance metrics; requiring sheriffs providing certain services to adopt the child welfare practice model; requiring the department to establish an Office of Quality; adding responsibilities to the department of contracts regarding care for children in the child welfare system; requiring the Florida Institute for Child Welfare and the Florida State University College of Social Work to design and implement a specified curriculum, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 1326	Florida SB 1326 (2020)	bill	social welfare motor vehicles insurance criminal procedure and corrections j executive branch judicial branch	enacted	2020-152	Simpson	4	34	5	2019-12-20	2020-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6369e40b-c3c5-45fe-bff0-af958b572fac	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1326/ByCategory	8a560d936a802bdbe71c01c5dd5366796bb1bbd8714869cc4d774fa8ed23894b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 1326 (2020) — Child Welfare

Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to establish performance metrics; requiring sheriffs providing certain services to adopt the child welfare practice model; requiring the department to establish an Office of Quality; adding responsibilities to the department of contracts regarding care for children in the child welfare system; requiring the Florida Institute for Child Welfare and the Florida State University College of Social Work to design and implement a specified curriculum, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-152.

Version chain

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

1. S 1326 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 1326 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 1326 e1 (engrossed) — source
4. S 1326 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 19–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Simpson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-20 Filed filing
• 2020-01-08 Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-16 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/21/20, 12:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2020-01-21 Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-21 Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
• 2020-01-23 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 01/28/20, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2020-01-28 Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
• 2020-01-28 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 19 NAYS 0
• 2020-03-02 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-03-02 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-03-03 CS by Appropriations read 1st time
• 2020-03-04 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
• 2020-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-06 Amendment(s) adopted (216532)
• 2020-03-06 Ordered engrossed
• 2020-03-06 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-09 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-09 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 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-11 CS passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-11 Ordered enrolled
• 2020-06-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-30 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-01 Chapter No. 2020-152

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6369e40b-c3c5-45fe-bff0-af958b572fac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).