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Florida · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 7018: Child Welfare

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

SB 7018 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on January 5, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Child Welfare. Primary sponsor: Children, Families, and Elder Affairs. Most recent recorded action (March 13, 2026): Died in Messages.

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.

Child Welfare; Renaming the Step into Success Workforce Education and Internship Pilot Program as the Step into Success Workforce Education and Internship Program; requiring the department’s Office of Continuing Care to develop certain cohorts within specified regions, collaborate with certain organizations and recruit mentors and organizations, and provide eligible former foster youth with internship placement opportunities; requiring the Office of Continuing Care to develop trauma-informed training for mentors of certain former foster youth which meets certain requirements, etc.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Children, Families, and Elder AffairsPrimary 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 Messages
  2. In Messages
  3. Immediately certified
  4. Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
  5. Read 3rd time
  6. Read 2nd time
  7. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
  8. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  9. Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
  10. On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
  11. Now in Appropriations
  12. Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 7 NAYS 0

Showing 12 most recent of 19 actions. Full history

Sources

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