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Bill	Child Welfare	Child Welfare; Transferring existing provisions relating to the central abuse hotline of the Department of Children and Families; providing criminal, civil, and administrative immunity to child protective investigators who report known or suspected animal cruelty; requiring the department to make available specified training for caregivers of children in out-of-home care; requiring the department to develop an alternative plan for providing community-based child welfare services under certain circumstances, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2021	SB 96	Florida SB 96 (2021)	bill	crimes criminal procedure and corrections motor vehicles public officers employees and records	enacted	2021-170	Book	5	48	6	2021-02-23	2021-07-06	openstates	ocd-bill/bfe97014-41bb-481d-9487-ce7c1ce4d37c	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/96/ByCategory	a07f0883087e3492ff062ef66d6864d9945ec0c15f2793c8ad5374f6a1028103	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 96 (2021) — Child Welfare

Child Welfare; Transferring existing provisions relating to the central abuse hotline of the Department of Children and Families; providing criminal, civil, and administrative immunity to child protective investigators who report known or suspected animal cruelty; requiring the department to make available specified training for caregivers of children in out-of-home care; requiring the department to develop an alternative plan for providing community-based child welfare services under certain circumstances, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-170.

Version chain

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

1. S 96 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 96 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 96 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 96 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 96 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Returning Messages — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 18–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Book — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-23 Filed filing
• 2021-02-24 Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations; 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 Appropriations
• 2021-03-08 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/11/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2021-03-10 CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
• 2021-03-11 Favorable by Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-12 Now in Rules
• 2021-03-18 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/18/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
• 2021-03-22 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/25/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2021-03-25 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
• 2021-03-29 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2021-03-29 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2021-03-29 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/01/21
• 2021-03-30 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2021-04-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-04-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-01 CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 -SJ 337, 338 passage
• 2021-04-01 Immediately certified
• 2021-04-01 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 836519 filed
• 2021-04-26 Amendment 854919 filed
• 2021-04-26 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 620311 filed
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 836519 withdrawn
• 2021-04-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 620311 adopted
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 854919 adopted as amended
• 2021-04-27 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 620311 replaced by engrossed amendment
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 854919 replaced by engrossed amendment
• 2021-04-27 Amendment 198175 engrossed amendment (replaces 854919, 620311)
• 2021-04-27 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2021-04-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-28 CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 passage
• 2021-04-28 Message sent to senate
• 2021-04-28 In returning messages
• 2021-04-28 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (198175)
• 2021-04-28 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 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. 2021-170

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfe97014-41bb-481d-9487-ce7c1ce4d37c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).