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type: "Bill"
title: "Task Force on the Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care"
description: "Task Force on the Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care; Creating the task force adjunct to the Department of Law Enforcement; providing requirements for member appointments, election of a chair, and meetings; requiring the Florida Institute for Child Welfare to conduct certain focus groups and individual interviews and submit its findings to the task force by a specified date; requiring the Department of Children and Families to submit certain monthly reports to the task force through a specified date, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 204"
citation: "Florida SB 204 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["judicial branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-247"
primary_sponsors: ["Fiscal Policy", "Rouson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95abfe3b-cd3b-4689-8391-bdc016976c88"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/204/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2ce3b4ed6afe40987e9fa9bd1d408a4b99d8973308017baab7095e74685f3591"
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 204 (2023) — Task Force on the Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care
Task Force on the Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care; Creating the task force adjunct to the Department of Law Enforcement; providing requirements for member appointments, election of a chair, and meetings; requiring the Florida Institute for Child Welfare to conduct certain focus groups and individual interviews and submit its findings to the task force by a specified date; requiring the Department of Children and Families to submit certain monthly reports to the task force through a specified date, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-247.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 204 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/204/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 204 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/204/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 204 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/204/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 204 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/204/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **1170** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **190** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Rouson — primary (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-17** Filed `filing`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/14/23, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-02-14** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-15** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/09/23, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-10** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-03-14** CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2023-03-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/23/23
- **2023-03-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-23** Amendment(s) adopted (876100)
- **2023-03-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-23** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-23** Immediately certified
- **2023-03-24** In Messages
- **2023-05-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-05-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/2/2023)
- **2023-05-01** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-16** Chapter No. 2023-247
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95abfe3b-cd3b-4689-8391-bdc016976c88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).