republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/hb-421.md

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Bill	Peer Support for First Responders	Peer Support for First Responders; Revises definition of term "first responder" to include specified support personnel for provision of peer support.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	HB 421	Florida HB 421 (2025)	bill		enacted	2025-9	Maggard	3	39	2	2025-02-05	2025-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/fbaca3b3-bceb-4a27-8ee6-aa734b2c5209	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/421/ByCategory	05616688694cdc3600202c6d9a2043a1bcefb8dc1ec51aebc514106bc8586c43	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 421 (2025) — Peer Support for First Responders

Peer Support for First Responders; Revises definition of term "first responder" to include specified support personnel for provision of peer support.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-9.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. H 421 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 421 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 421 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Maggard — primary (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Mooney — cosponsor (person)
• Partington — cosponsor (person)
• Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
• Rizo — cosponsor (person)
• Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-02-05 Filed filing
• 2025-02-12 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2025-03-04 Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2025-03-04 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2025-03-06 Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2025-03-07 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2025-03-07 CS Filed filing
• 2025-03-07 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2025-03-11 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2025-03-13 Favorable by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2025-03-13 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2025-03-13 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2025-03-20 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/26/2025)
• 2025-03-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-26 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-03-26 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-03-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-26 CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-03-27 In Messages
• 2025-03-31 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Received enrolled
• 2025-04-03 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2025-04-03 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-03 Substituted for CS/SB 86
• 2025-04-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-03 CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-03 Immediately certified
• 2025-04-03 In Messages
• 2025-04-03 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2025-04-11 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-18 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-22 Chapter No. 2025-9

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fbaca3b3-bceb-4a27-8ee6-aa734b2c5209. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).