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type: "Bill"
title: "Suicide Prevention"
description: "Suicide Prevention; Authorizing certain diagnoses to be made through telehealth; renaming the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse as the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder; revising the purposes of the commission to include an assessment of the states suicide prevention infrastructure; revising the membership and duties of the commission; requiring the commission to submit annual interim reports to the Governor and Legislature for a specified timeframe, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 914"
citation: "Florida SB 914 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-252"
primary_sponsors: ["Garcia", "Rules"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6086aa15-0b79-4839-87d0-efe11626b099"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/914/ByCategory"
source_hash: "aa13a0c79187156f02ce1f12fa323b3b4a4a206cedf2a9741bbc9b7800ba5aa6"
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 914 (2023) — Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention; Authorizing certain diagnoses to be made through telehealth; renaming the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse as the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder; revising the purposes of the commission to include an assessment of the states suicide prevention infrastructure; revising the membership and duties of the commission; requiring the commission to submit annual interim reports to the Governor and Legislature for a specified timeframe, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-252.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 914 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/914/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 914 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/914/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 914 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/914/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **1150** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **80** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **90** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **190** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Garcia — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-17** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Health Policy; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/14/23, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-14** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14** Now in Health Policy
- **2023-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/20/23, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-20** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-21** Now in Rules
- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/11/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-11** CS by- Rules; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-12** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-12** CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2023-04-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/19/23
- **2023-04-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Immediately certified
- **2023-04-19** In Messages
- **2023-04-19** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-19** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2023)
- **2023-04-19** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-20** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 655
- **2023-04-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-20** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-20** 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. 2023-252
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6086aa15-0b79-4839-87d0-efe11626b099`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).