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| Bill | Child Welfare Placements | Child Welfare Placements; Authorizes DCF to place children in its custody in therapeutic group homes for residential mental health treatment without prior court approval; defines "therapeutic group home"; provides that DCF, rather than AHCA, shall appoint qualified evaluators to conduct suitability assessments of certain children in department's custody; specifies qualifications for evaluators conducting suitability assessments for placement in therapeutic group home; revises requirements for suitability assessments; specifies when DCF must provide copy of assessment to guardian ad litem & court; removes department's & agency's rulemaking authority; revises definition of term "special needs child". | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2022 | HB 893 | Florida HB 893 (2022) |
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enacted | 2022-55 |
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4 | 43 | 4 | 2021-12-09 | 2022-04-08 | openstates | ocd-bill/3302dde9-4728-49a8-9406-8644da3b9b9a | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/893/ByCategory | 6ee88c80465ec0bb7227e8039b271498de9ead57ec2c1db0fc4b3a903a131ea4 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 893 (2022) — Child Welfare Placements
Child Welfare Placements; Authorizes DCF to place children in its custody in therapeutic group homes for residential mental health treatment without prior court approval; defines "therapeutic group home"; provides that DCF, rather than AHCA, shall appoint qualified evaluators to conduct suitability assessments of certain children in department's custody; specifies qualifications for evaluators conducting suitability assessments for placement in therapeutic group home; revises requirements for suitability assessments; specifies when DCF must provide copy of assessment to guardian ad litem & court; removes department's & agency's rulemaking authority; revises definition of term "special needs child".
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-55.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- H 893 Filed (filed) — source
- H 893 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 893 c2 (committee substitute) — source
- H 893 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee) — 15–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Amendment(s) (Health & Human Services Committee) — 19–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Health and Human Services Committee — primary (organization)
- Melo — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Arrington — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
- Daley — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- McCurdy — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Rayner — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, F. — cosponsor (person)
- Silvers — cosponsor (person)
- Skidmore — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-12-09 Filed
filing - 2022-01-03 Referred to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2022-01-03 Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2022-01-03 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
referral-committee - 2022-01-03 Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
- 2022-01-11 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- 2022-01-21 Added to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee agenda
- 2022-01-25 Favorable with CS by Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
- 2022-01-26 Reported out of Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
- 2022-01-26 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- 2022-01-26 CS Filed
- 2022-01-27 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- 2022-01-28 Original reference removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- 2022-01-28 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
referral-committee - 2022-01-28 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- 2022-02-21 PCS added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- 2022-02-23 Favorable with CS by Health & Human Services Committee
- 2022-02-23 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- 2022-02-23 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- 2022-02-23 CS Filed
- 2022-02-23 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- 2022-02-24 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2022-02-24 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2022-02-24 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
- 2022-03-01 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2022-03-01 Placed on 3rd reading
- 2022-03-01 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2022-03-02 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2022-03-02 CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0
passage - 2022-03-02 In Messages
- 2022-03-02 Referred to Appropriations
referral-committee - 2022-03-02 Withdrawn from Appropriations
withdrawal - 2022-03-02 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2022-03-02 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1120
- 2022-03-02 Received
- 2022-03-02 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2022-03-02 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2022-03-02 CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
passage - 2022-03-02 In Messages
- 2022-03-02 Ordered enrolled
- 2022-04-05 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- 2022-04-06 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2022-04-08 Chapter No. 2022-55
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3302dde9-4728-49a8-9406-8644da3b9b9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).