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type: "Bill"
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title: "Child Welfare"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 7012"
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citation: "Florida SB 7012 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["(adopted)", "judicial branch", "public health"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2025-186"
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primary_sponsors: []
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 38
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2025-02-27"
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last_action: "2025-06-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6748d56-f6d5-45c2-b170-93ee7c2140c1"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "302fc240d80f28b8729c854a6d151deb186df44649ece864872fb570367a7fd6"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida SB 7012 (2025) — Child Welfare
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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.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-186.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **S 7012 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 7012 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 7012 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/pb/HTML)
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4. **S 7012 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/e1/HTML)
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5. **S 7012 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/7012/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
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- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (organization)
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- Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-27** Submitted for consideration by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
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- **2025-02-27** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/04/25, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
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- **2025-03-04** Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
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- **2025-03-05** Filed `filing`
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- **2025-03-06** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-10** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/13/25, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2025-03-13** CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
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- **2025-03-13** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2025-03-14** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2025-03-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/19/25
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- **2025-03-18** CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
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- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-03-19** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-03-19** Immediately certified
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- **2025-03-19** In Messages
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- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
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- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
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- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-30** Amendment 646549 adopted
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- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-04-30** In returning messages
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- **2025-05-01** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (451310)
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- **2025-05-01** Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (646549)
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- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-05-01** In Messages
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- **2025-05-02** Senate Message List
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- **2025-05-02** Amendment 451310 Concur
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- **2025-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 98, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-05-02** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-06-26** Chapter No. 2025-186
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6748d56-f6d5-45c2-b170-93ee7c2140c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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