Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 7012: Child Welfare
Enacted Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
SB 7012 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 27, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Child Welfare. Primary sponsor: Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Fiscal Policy. Most recent recorded action (June 26, 2025): Chapter No. 2025-186.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to maintain copies of certain assessments and tools used to assess children for certain placement; removing authority for the department to grant exemptions from working with children or the developmentally disabled; subject to an appropriation, requiring the department to develop a child protective investigator and case manager recruitment program for a specified purpose; subject to an appropriation and beginning on a specified date, requiring the department to develop a 4-year pilot program for treatment foster care; specifying that incentives provided to state employees for participating in research or evaluation with the Florida Institute for Child Welfare do not violate certain laws or require certain reporting, etc.
Sponsors
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children, Families, and Elder Affairs | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
| Fiscal Policy | Primary sponsor | Not 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
- Chapter No. 2025-186
- Approved by Governor
- Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- CS passed as amended; YEAS 98, NAYS 0
- Amendment 451310 Concur
- Senate Message List
- In Messages
- CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
- Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (646549)
- Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (451310)
- In returning messages
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