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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 845: Veterans Affairs

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 845 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Veterans Affairs. Primary sponsor: Patt Maney (Republican), Criminal Justice Subcommittee, Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee. It lists 13 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Fiscal Policy.

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.

Veterans Affairs; Revises admissions process for veterans treatment court programs; authorizes court, in consultation with multidisciplinary team, to determine eligibility for veterans treatment court programs; authorizes sentencing courts to divert defendants to veterans treatment court programs; requires certain notice be provided to defendants; provides for disposition of probation or community control violations by program participants.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 5 · Republican 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Patt ManeyPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse4
Criminal Justice SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Intergovernmental Affairs SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Judiciary CommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
CaselloCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Kim DanielsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse14
Anna EskamaniCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
Ashley GanttCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse109
Rita HarrisCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse44
Jeff HolcombCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse53
Kim KendallCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse18
Johanna LópezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Kiyan MichaelCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse16
Alex RizoCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse112
Michelle SalzmanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse1
Paula StarkCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse47
TempleCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“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 Fiscal Policy
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Received
  4. Referred to Fiscal Policy
  5. In Messages
  6. CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0
  7. Read 3rd time
  8. Added to Third Reading Calendar
  9. Placed on 3rd reading
  10. Read 2nd time
  11. 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3)
  12. Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)

Showing 12 most recent of 40 actions. Full history

Sources

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