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FloridaSB 16202025Senate

Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Sponsored By: Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, Darryl Ervin Rouson (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

AppropriationChildren, Families, and Elder AffairsAppropriations Committee on Health and Human ServicesFiscal PolicyHouse Calendar

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Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Required care planning for facility patients

Receiving and treatment facilities must update patient care plans, including physician summaries, at least every 30 days. For patients kept longer than 24 months, updates are required at least every 60 days. Discharge plans must explain how patients can get prescribed medicines. They must address access barriers to long-acting injectable medicine when it is part of the patient's plan. Before discharge, facilities must give a long-acting injection when available for the diagnosed behavioral health condition and clinically appropriate.

Crisis care standards must address seniors

Florida's Department of Children and Families must address people age 65 and older in its mobile crisis service rules. Those rules must specify any training or other requirements that apply to services available to this age group. This does not guarantee a particular service.

Shared assessment rules for mental health patients

Providers directly contracted with Florida's Department of Children and Families must use the latest Daily Living Activities-20 (DLA-20) tool when patients need functional assessments. Behavioral health managing entities must require the same tool among their contracted providers. The department can set a different tool by rule.

Shared mental health assessment rules for children

Florida's child and adolescent mental health assessment tools must include the latest Daily Living Activities-20 (DLA-20) tool. The Department of Children and Families can set a different tool by rule. Beginning July 1, 2025, assessments under required school mental health assistance plans must also use the latest DLA-20. The Department of Education can choose another tool by rule after consulting the Department of Children and Families.

Respectful mental health care practices promoted

Florida's behavioral health managing entities must promote respectful, person-first language and care that responds to trauma. They must use training and shared best practices to reach providers, peer organizations, and family members. The Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center must share evidence-based and other best practices with grantees. These practices must include person-first language and care that responds to trauma.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Darryl Ervin Rouson

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Fiscal Policy

    Affiliation unavailable

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 216 • No: 3

Senate vote • 5/2/2025

Senate Floor Vote

Yes: 34 • No: 3

House vote • 4/29/2025

House Floor Vote

Yes: 116 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/24/2025

Senate Floor Vote

Yes: 37 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/17/2025

Fiscal Policy Vote

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/10/2025

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Vote

Yes: 8 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/25/2025

Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Vote

Yes: 5 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter No. 2025-184

    6/26/2025

  2. Approved by Governor

    6/25/2025

  3. Signed by Officers and presented to Governor

    6/18/2025

  4. Ordered engrossed, then enrolled -SJ 1135

    5/2/2025Senate

  5. CS passed as amended; YEAS 34 NAYS 3 -SJ 1135

    5/2/2025Senate

  6. Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (852013) -SJ 1135

    5/2/2025Senate

  7. In returning messages

    4/29/2025Senate

  8. CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0

    4/29/2025House

  9. Read 3rd time

    4/29/2025House

  10. Added to Third Reading Calendar

    4/29/2025House

  11. Placed on 3rd reading

    4/29/2025House

  12. Amendment 852013 adopted

    4/29/2025House

  13. Read 2nd time

    4/29/2025House

  14. 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)

    4/28/2025House

  15. Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)

    4/28/2025House

  16. Bill referred to House Calendar

    4/28/2025House

  17. In Messages

    4/24/2025House

  18. CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 -SJ 545

    4/24/2025Senate

  19. Read 3rd time -SJ 545

    4/24/2025Senate

  20. Amendment(s) adopted (440964) -SJ 545

    4/24/2025Senate

  21. Read 2nd time -SJ 544

    4/24/2025Senate

  22. CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time

    4/22/2025Senate

  23. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/25

    4/21/2025Senate

  24. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

    4/18/2025Senate

  25. Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

    4/18/2025Senate

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