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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1167: Mental Health Services for First Responders

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1167 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 26, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Mental Health Services for First Responders. Primary sponsor: Ashley Gantt (Democratic). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Mental Health Services for First Responders; Requires Division of State Fire Marshal to develop & implement statewide behavioral health access program to provide certain mental wellness services & resources to first responders; provides requirements for program; provides that first responders are not required to pay copayment for services & resources; provides training requirements for licensed professional counselors; requires program, by specified date, to develop specified plan & submit plan to Legislature.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ashley GanttPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse109
Daryl CampbellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse99

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
  4. Referred to Commerce Committee
  5. Referred to State Administration Budget Subcommittee
  6. Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
  7. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  8. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source