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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1207: Mental Health

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1207 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 26, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Mental Health. Primary sponsor: Dan Daley (Democratic), Nan Cobb (Republican). It lists 12 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 30, 2025): Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 168 (Ch. 2025-180).

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; Expands programs & diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators & emergency medical technicians for certain purposes & to include veterans treatment court programs; exempts certain fiscally constrained counties from local match requirements for specified grants; encourages communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; provides model process for such mental health diversion programs; authorizes specified entities to collaborate to establish certain policies & procedures & to develop certain consent form; requires mental health evaluations & following of all recommendations as conditions of probation for specified defendants; creates Florida Behavioral Health Care Data Repository within Northwest Regional Data Center; requires data center to develop specified plan & submit annual report.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 10 · Republican 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Dan DaleyPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse96
Nan CobbPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse26
Lindsay CrossCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse60
Ashley GanttCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse109
Mike GottliebCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse102
Rita HarrisCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse44
Jeff HolcombCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse53
Christine HunschofskyCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse95
Dotie JosephCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse108
Johanna LópezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Danny NixCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse75
Angie NixonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse13
Leonard SpencerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse45
Taylor YarkoskyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse25

“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. Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 168 (Ch. 2025-180)
  2. Added to Second Reading Calendar
  3. Bill released to House Calendar
  4. Reported out of Judiciary Committee
  5. Favorable by Judiciary Committee
  6. Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
  7. Now in Judiciary Committee
  8. Reported out of Human Services Subcommittee
  9. Favorable by Human Services Subcommittee
  10. Added to Human Services Subcommittee agenda
  11. Now in Human Services Subcommittee
  12. Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee

Showing 12 most recent of 20 actions. Full history

Sources

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