Siblings Placed in Out-of-home Care
- Introduced Feb 28, 2025
- In committee Mar 7, 2025
- Passed the Senate
- Passed the House
- To the governor
- Became law Jul 1, 2025
What it does
The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.
Siblings Placed in Out-of-home Care; Providing for the importance of visitation, and not just contact, between siblings who have been separated; requiring the court to hold a hearing, take evidence, and hear arguments if a motion for sibling visitation or contact is contested; providing that a court retains jurisdiction over a dependent child in a permanent guardianship for certain purposes relating to sibling visitation or contact, etc.
Every action
5 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
- SenateFiled
- CommitteeReferred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- SenateIntroduced
- SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
- CommitteeDied in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Roll calls
No recorded votes on this bill yet.
Sponsors
The member who introduced it.
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Alexis CalatayudR Primary sponsor · District 38
From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.