republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/sb-7012.md

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Bill	Child Welfare	Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to maintain copies of certain assessments and tools used to assess children for certain placement; removing authority for the department to grant exemptions from working with children or the developmentally disabled; subject to an appropriation, requiring the department to develop a child protective investigator and case manager recruitment program for a specified purpose; subject to an appropriation and beginning on a specified date, requiring the department to develop a 4-year pilot program for treatment foster care; specifying that incentives provided to state employees for participating in research or evaluation with the Florida Institute for Child Welfare do not violate certain laws or require certain reporting, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	SB 7012	Florida SB 7012 (2025)	bill	(adopted) judicial branch public health	enacted	2025-186		5	38	6	2025-02-27	2025-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/f6748d56-f6d5-45c2-b170-93ee7c2140c1	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/ByCategory	302fc240d80f28b8729c854a6d151deb186df44649ece864872fb570367a7fd6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 7012 (2025) — Child Welfare

Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to maintain copies of certain assessments and tools used to assess children for certain placement; removing authority for the department to grant exemptions from working with children or the developmentally disabled; subject to an appropriation, requiring the department to develop a child protective investigator and case manager recruitment program for a specified purpose; subject to an appropriation and beginning on a specified date, requiring the department to develop a 4-year pilot program for treatment foster care; specifying that incentives provided to state employees for participating in research or evaluation with the Florida Institute for Child Welfare do not violate certain laws or require certain reporting, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-186.

Version chain

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

1. S 7012 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 7012 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 7012 pb (committee substitute) — source
4. S 7012 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 7012 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-27 Submitted for consideration by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
• 2025-02-27 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/04/25, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2025-03-04 Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
• 2025-03-05 Filed filing
• 2025-03-06 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/13/25, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-03-10 Introduced introduction
• 2025-03-13 CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
• 2025-03-13 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-03-14 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-03-17 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/19/25
• 2025-03-18 CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
• 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 1) reading-1
• 2025-04-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-30 Amendment 646549 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 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-30 In returning messages
• 2025-05-01 Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (451310)
• 2025-05-01 Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (646549)
• 2025-05-01 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-05-01 In Messages
• 2025-05-02 Senate Message List
• 2025-05-02 Amendment 451310 Concur
• 2025-05-02 CS passed as amended; YEAS 98, NAYS 0 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. 2025-186

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6748d56-f6d5-45c2-b170-93ee7c2140c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).