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type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health and Substance Abuse"
description: "Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Authorizing emergency contact information to be released to certain entities; revising the conditions under which a patients communication with persons outside of a receiving facility may be restricted; requiring a receiving facility to notify specified emergency contacts of individuals who are being involuntarily held for examination; requiring receiving facilities to document that an option to authorize the release of specified information has been provided, within a specified timeframe, to individuals admitted on a voluntary basis; requiring that reports issued by law enforcement officers when delivering a person to a receiving facility contain certain information related to emergency contacts, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1262"
citation: "Florida SB 1262 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["domestic relations", "public officers", "employees", "and records"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-36"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Burgess", "Children, Families, and Elder Affairs"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-12-15"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b6062ff-873b-403d-ac7f-acba5ba2471a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0ec43150a8c7ed976561c543a035365f161fc5f3f14f3381bcf1eb9eaffd65c2"
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 1262 (2022) — Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Authorizing emergency contact information to be released to certain entities; revising the conditions under which a patients communication with persons outside of a receiving facility may be restricted; requiring a receiving facility to notify specified emergency contacts of individuals who are being involuntarily held for examination; requiring receiving facilities to document that an option to authorize the release of specified information has been provided, within a specified timeframe, to individuals admitted on a voluntary basis; requiring that reports issued by law enforcement officers when delivering a person to a receiving facility contain certain information related to emergency contacts, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-36.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 1262 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1262 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1262 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1262 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **110** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **80** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **190** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1170** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Burgess — primary (person)
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Rouson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-12-15** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-05** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/25/22, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-25** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-26** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2022-01-26** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2022-02-11** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/16/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-16** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-18** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/24/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-24** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-28** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-28** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-03-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-03** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** 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. 2022-36
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b6062ff-873b-403d-ac7f-acba5ba2471a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).