# Florida HB 903: Corrections Florida HB 903, Corrections, is a 2025 House bill sponsored by Berny Jacques (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-05-23 (Chapter No. 2025-81); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB903-2025 - As of: 2026-10-19 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Florida HB 903 - State: Florida - Session: 2025 - Title: Corrections - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-02-21 - Last action: 2025-05-23, Chapter No. 2025-81 - Sponsor: Berny Jacques (Republican) - Cosponsors: 2 - Subjects: Appropriation, Criminal Justice Subcommittee, Justice Budget Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee, House Calendar, Fiscal Policy - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 2 (105 yes, 49 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 11 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - More mental health care for inmates: benefit, medium. The Department of Corrections must provide inmates with mental health evaluations and suitable inpatient or outpatient care. Care must match each person’s needs and use the least restrictive suitable option. Inmates must be offered a chance to help write a treatment plan and get a copy before it be… - Care planning for inmates leaving prison: benefit, low. For an inmate scheduled for release who faces an involuntary inpatient placement petition, there is no filing fee. If the inmate has no lawyer, the court must appoint one within 1 court working day. The Department of Corrections can transport a person being released to a facility for examination or… - Longer terms for firearm felonies: cost, medium. Courts must make qualifying minimum prison terms for firearm or destructive-device felonies run one after another. For a listed felony committed alongside a felony not covered by that rule, a court may also order the terms to run consecutively. - Commission members lose travel payments: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, members of the Florida Commission on Offender Review no longer receive per diem or travel payments under this provision for commission duties. The law gives no payment amount. - Corrections staff may use tracking devices: cost, low. Corrections and juvenile-justice staff may install, place, or use tracking devices on people in their care, custody, or control while doing their jobs. A person may also use a tracking device when a court order authorizes it. - More execution methods allowed: cost, low. The law allows executions by electrocution, lethal injection, or another method not deemed unconstitutional. If a listed court ruling occurs or the Department of Corrections finds lethal-injection chemicals impossible or impractical to obtain, the state must use a method not deemed unconstitutional. - Changes to private prison contracts: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, the Department of Corrections may keep dental, medical, psychological, or dietary services out of private contracts when it finds state delivery is in the state’s best interests. Private correctional-services contracts no longer have to meet the minority-participation requir… - Rules for forced mental health treatment: mixed, medium. A clinician can refer an inmate for involuntary examination, and the warden must transfer the inmate to a mental health treatment facility. Two qualified professionals must examine the inmate, and proceedings must begin within 10 calendar days after arrival. Courts can order placement and treatment… - New limits on prisoner lawsuits: mixed, low. Prisoners generally have one year to bring claims about confinement, measured from when the issue happened or was, or should have been, discovered. They must first complete available prison complaint steps, and courts must dismiss cases that are frivolous, malicious, fail to state a claim, or seek… - One corrections law section repealed: mixed, low. The law repeals a section of Florida corrections law. The provided text does not explain what that section covered, so its practical effects are unclear. - Inmates gain health care decision safeguards: mixed, low. The Department of Corrections must offer inmates a chance to record their health care wishes in an advance directive. The law presumes inmates can make health care decisions and sets rules for choosing a proxy when they cannot, including appointing an ombudsman when no eligible proxy is available i… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Berny Jacques (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Criminal Justice Subcommittee - Cosponsor: Judiciary Committee ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-04-29 | Senate | Senate Floor Vote | pass | 22 | 16 | | | 2025-04-16 | House | House Floor Vote | pass | 83 | 33 | | ## Actions (46) - 2025-05-23: Chapter No. 2025-81 - 2025-05-22: Approved by Governor - 2025-05-19: Signed by Officers and presented to Governor - 2025-04-29: Ordered enrolled (House) - 2025-04-29: In Messages (House) - 2025-04-29: CS passed; YEAS 26 NAYS 11 -SJ 641 (Senate) - 2025-04-29: Amendment(s) failed (894320) -SJ 641 (Senate) - 2025-04-29: Read 3rd time -SJ 638 (Senate) - 2025-04-28: Placed on 3rd reading -SJ 594 (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Retained on Special Order Calendar -SJ 553 (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading -SJ 543 (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Read 2nd time -SJ 543 (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1604 -SJ 543 (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy -SJ 542 (Senate) - 2025-04-22: Received (Senate) - 2025-04-16: Referred to Fiscal Policy (Senate) - 2025-04-16: In Messages (Senate) - 2025-04-16: CS passed; YEAS 83, NAYS 33 (House) - 2025-04-16: Read 3rd time (House) - 2025-04-16: Added to Third Reading Calendar (House) - 2025-04-16: Placed on 3rd reading (House) - 2025-04-16: Read 2nd time (House) - 2025-04-10: Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025) (House) - 2025-04-03: Added to Second Reading Calendar (House) - 2025-04-03: 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) (House) - 2025-04-03: Bill referred to House Calendar (House) - 2025-04-02: CS Filed (House) - 2025-04-02: Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) (House) - 2025-04-02: Reported out of Judiciary Committee (House) - 2025-04-02: Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee (House) - 2025-03-31: Added to Judiciary Committee agenda (House) - 2025-03-28: Now in Judiciary Committee (House) - 2025-03-28: Referred to Judiciary Committee (House) - 2025-03-27: 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) (House) - 2025-03-27: CS Filed (House) - 2025-03-27: Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) (House) - 2025-03-26: Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee (House) - 2025-03-26: Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee (House) - 2025-03-24: Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda (House) - 2025-03-04: 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) (House) - 2025-03-02: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee (House) - 2025-03-02: Referred to Judiciary Committee (House) - 2025-03-02: Referred to Justice Budget Subcommittee (House) - 2025-03-02: Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee (House) - 2025-02-21: Filed (House) ## Bill text - er, 2025-07-01: [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/903/BillText/er/PDF) - c2, 2025-04-02: [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/903/BillText/c2/PDF) - c1, 2025-03-27: [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/903/BillText/c1/PDF) - Filed, 2025-02-21: [PDF](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/903/BillText/Filed/PDF) ## Related bills - HB 1427: Nursing Education Programs (vetoed) - HB 1095: Criminal Offender Substance Abuse Program (vetoed) - HB 6017: Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death (vetoed) - HB 1445: Public Officers and Employees (vetoed) - HB 11: Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates (vetoed) - HB 5015: State Group Insurance (vetoed) ## Sources - [er (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/903/BillText/er/PDF) - [c2 (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/903/BillText/c2/PDF) - [c1 (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/903/BillText/c1/PDF) - [Filed (PDF)](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/903/BillText/Filed/PDF) ## Related - [HB 1427: Nursing Education Programs](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1427-2025) - [HB 1095: Criminal Offender Substance Abuse Program](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1095-2025) - [HB 6017: Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB6017-2025) - [HB 1445: Public Officers and Employees](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB1445-2025) - [HB 11: Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB11-2025) - [HB 5015: State Group Insurance](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB5015-2025) - [Florida bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/florida/bills) - [Florida state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/florida) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/FL-HB903-2025 (as of 2026-10-19).