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Bill	Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders	Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to require certain providers to use a specified assessment tool; requiring facilities to update treatment plans within specified timeframes; requiring use of a specified assessment tool; providing an exception; requiring the Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida to disseminate among grantees certain evidence-based practices and best practices, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	SB 1620	Florida SB 1620 (2025)	bill		enacted	2025-184	Rouson	6	38	7	2025-02-27	2025-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/2622801b-0f9a-4643-953f-7d2b17681596	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1620/ByCategory	96e21fdc37c8c81c89b672ff3d779fd6cf4c12587307d5d91656a9e8c903eb78	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 1620 (2025) — Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to require certain providers to use a specified assessment tool; requiring facilities to update treatment plans within specified timeframes; requiring use of a specified assessment tool; providing an exception; requiring the Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida to disseminate among grantees certain evidence-based practices and best practices, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-184.

Version chain

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

1. S 1620 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 1620 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 1620 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 1620 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 1620 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 1620 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Returning Messages — 34–3 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• A - 440964, Motion to Co-Introduce, Second Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (organization)
• Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
• Rouson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-27 Filed filing
• 2025-03-06 Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Introduced introduction
• 2025-03-20 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/25/25, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2025-03-25 CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
• 2025-03-26 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-03-26 Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
• 2025-03-27 CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
• 2025-04-07 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 04/10/25, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-04-10 Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-11 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2025-04-14 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/17/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-04-17 CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
• 2025-04-18 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-04-18 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-21 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/25
• 2025-04-22 CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
• 2025-04-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Amendment(s) adopted (440964)
• 2025-04-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-24 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-24 In Messages
• 2025-04-28 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2025-04-28 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
• 2025-04-28 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
• 2025-04-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-29 Amendment 852013 adopted
• 2025-04-29 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-29 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-29 CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-29 In returning messages
• 2025-05-02 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (852013)
• 2025-05-02 CS passed as amended; YEAS 34 NAYS 3 passage
• 2025-05-02 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-18 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-25 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-26 Chapter No. 2025-184

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2622801b-0f9a-4643-953f-7d2b17681596. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).