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type: "Bill"
title: "Peer Support for First Responders"
description: "Peer Support for First Responders; Revises definition of term \"first responder\" to include specified support personnel for provision of peer support."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 421"
citation: "Florida HB 421 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-9"
primary_sponsors: ["Maggard"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbaca3b3-bceb-4a27-8ee6-aa734b2c5209"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/421/ByCategory"
source_hash: "05616688694cdc3600202c6d9a2043a1bcefb8dc1ec51aebc514106bc8586c43"
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 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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/421/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 421 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/421/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 421 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/421/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1130** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbaca3b3-bceb-4a27-8ee6-aa734b2c5209`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).