Florida · Senate Bill 1626 · 2025 Regular Session

Child Welfare

  1. Introduced Feb 27, 2025
  2. In committee Mar 6, 2025
  3. Passed the Senate  
  4. Passed the House  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to enter into agreements with certain military installations for child protective investigations involving military families; authorizing a law enforcement officer or an authorized agent of the department to take a child into custody who is the subject of a specified court order; requiring the department to establish a methodology to determine daily…

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Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to enter into agreements with certain military installations for child protective investigations involving military families; authorizing a law enforcement officer or an authorized agent of the department to take a child into custody who is the subject of a specified court order; requiring the department to establish a methodology to determine daily room and board rates for certain children by a date certain, which may include different rates based on a child’s acuity level or the geographic location of the residential child-caring agency, etc.

Every action

26 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

Show the 18 earlier steps
  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
  3. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/12/25, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
  4. SenateIntroduced
  5. CommitteeCS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs7–0 vote
  6. SenatePending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  7. CommitteeNow in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services · Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
  8. CommitteeCS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
  9. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building · Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
  10. CommitteeCS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 · Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services10–0 vote
  11. SenatePending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  12. CommitteeNow in Fiscal Policy · Senate Fiscal Policy
  13. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building · Senate Fiscal Policy
  14. SenateCS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 16 NAYS 1
  15. CommitteeCS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time · Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
  16. SenatePending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  17. SenatePlaced on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  18. SenatePlaced on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
  1. SenateCS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
  2. SenateRead 2nd time -SJ 391
  3. SenateRead 3rd time -SJ 391
  4. SenateCS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 -SJ 391
  5. SenateImmediately certified -SJ 392
  6. HouseIn Messages
  7. HouseIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  8. HouseDied in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1255 (Ch. 2025-110 ), CS/SB 7012 (Ch. 2025-186 )

Roll calls

4 recorded votes: 1 on the floor, 3 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee and other votes

DateWhereQuestionResult
Mar 12, 2025 Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
Members

Yes · 7

7–0
Mar 26, 2025 Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
Members

Yes · 10

10–0
Apr 2, 2025 Senate Fiscal Policy Fiscal Policy vote
Members

Yes · 16

No · 1

Not voting · 2

16–1

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

  • Erin GrallR Primary sponsor · District 29
  • FP Fiscal Policy Sponsoring committee
  • AC Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Sponsoring committee
  • CF Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Sponsoring committee

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.