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type: "Bill"
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title: "Mental Health and Substance Abuse"
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description: "Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Authorizing emergency contact information to be released to certain entities; revising the conditions under which a patient’s 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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2022"
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identifier: "SB 1262"
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citation: "Florida SB 1262 (2022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["domestic relations", "public officers", "employees", "and records"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2022-36"
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primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Burgess", "Children, Families, and Elder Affairs"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 33
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2021-12-15"
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last_action: "2022-04-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b6062ff-873b-403d-ac7f-acba5ba2471a"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "0ec43150a8c7ed976561c543a035365f161fc5f3f14f3381bcf1eb9eaffd65c2"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida SB 1262 (2022) — Mental Health and Substance Abuse
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Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Authorizing emergency contact information to be released to certain entities; revising the conditions under which a patient’s 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.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-36.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **S 1262 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 1262 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 1262 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/BillText/c2/HTML)
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4. **S 1262 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1262/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Appropriations — primary (person)
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- Burgess — primary (person)
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- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)
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- Perry — cosponsor (person)
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- Rouson — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-12-15** Filed `filing`
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- **2022-01-05** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/25/22, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building
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- **2022-01-25** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
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- **2022-01-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2022-01-26** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
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- **2022-01-26** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
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- **2022-02-11** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/16/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2022-02-16** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
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- **2022-02-18** Now in Appropriations
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- **2022-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/24/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2022-02-24** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
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- **2022-02-28** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2022-02-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2022-02-28** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
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- **2022-03-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
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- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-03-03** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2022-03-03** In Messages
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- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
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- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
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- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
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- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
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- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
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- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-36
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## Source
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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).
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