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Bill	Veterans	Veterans; Requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to conduct a study that includes a survey evaluating the extent to which specified persons are aware of certain existing programs or services; requiring the department to ensure coordination to the greatest extent possible with the United States Department of Defense for a specified purpose; revising the purpose of the Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program to include specialized mental health training; requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to develop a plan to establish adult day health care facilities across this state to serve veterans and their families, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	SB 116	Florida SB 116 (2025)	bill	appropriations public lands and property veterans	enacted	2025-146	Burgess	4	42	6	2025-02-05	2025-06-23	openstates	ocd-bill/b35d6860-4782-4ee9-a357-bbb3ebcecf9a	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/116/ByCategory	eb492061789f934913edd99d08e6c15a64e6fb3c2a965575357e9e4d6a73c304	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 116 (2025) — Veterans

Veterans; Requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to conduct a study that includes a survey evaluating the extent to which specified persons are aware of certain existing programs or services; requiring the department to ensure coordination to the greatest extent possible with the United States Department of Defense for a specified purpose; revising the purpose of the Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program to include specialized mental health training; requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to develop a plan to establish adult day health care facilities across this state to serve veterans and their families, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-146.

Version chain

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

1. S 116 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 116 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 116 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 116 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 25–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
• Burgess — primary (person)
• Rules — primary (organization)
• Avila — cosponsor (person)
• Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-05 Filed filing
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 02/18/25, 1:45 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2025-02-18 Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-18 Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
• 2025-02-28 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/05/25, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-03-04 Introduced introduction
• 2025-03-05 CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
• 2025-03-07 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-03-07 Now in Rules
• 2025-03-07 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/12/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-03-10 CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
• 2025-03-12 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0
• 2025-03-12 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-03-12 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2025-03-13 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-03-17 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/19/25
• 2025-03-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-19 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-03-19 Immediately certified
• 2025-03-19 In Messages
• 2025-04-29 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2025-04-29 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
• 2025-04-29 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2025-04-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-30 Amendment 646315 adopted
• 2025-04-30 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-30 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-30 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-30 CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-30 In returning messages
• 2025-05-02 Refused to concur in 1 amendment(s) (646315)
• 2025-05-02 Requested House to recede
• 2025-05-02 In Messages
• 2025-05-02 Senate Message List
• 2025-05-02 Amendment 646315 Recede
• 2025-05-02 CS passed; YEAS 98, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-05-02 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-18 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-19 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-23 Chapter No. 2025-146

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b35d6860-4782-4ee9-a357-bbb3ebcecf9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).