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FloridaSB 1682025Senate
Mental Health
Sponsored By: Jennifer Bradley (Republican)
Signed by Governor
AppropriationCriminal JusticeAppropriationsHouse Calendar
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Treatment diversion for eligible felony defendants
Beginning October 1, 2025, eligible adults with mental illness charged with second- or third-degree felonies can enter voluntary treatment diversion. They generally must have no more than three felony convictions in five years, no violent-felony charge, and no significant violence history. The prosecutor alone decides eligibility and can waive criteria in exceptional cases when justice warrants. Participants must consent to treatment, needed records release, and a speedy-trial waiver. They must complete an outpatient assessment and follow treatment recommendations; those released without bail have 48 hours after release for assessment. Prosecutors can revoke participation for noncompliance and must consider dismissal after successful completion, but dismissal is not guaranteed.
Treatment diversion for misdemeanor defendants
The law creates a voluntary treatment-diversion model for adults charged only with a misdemeanor or ordinance violation. Local officials and providers set procedures; grant-funded communities follow the model as local resources allow. Participants must sign consent for treatment, needed records release, and a waiver of their right to a speedy trial. Jail staff may screen defendants within 24 hours of booking. A professional certificate for involuntary examination requires transport to a receiving facility within 72 hours. Courts may release defendants without bail on the condition that they follow treatment plans. Defendants with mental illness who receive no certificate must get an outpatient assessment; those released through this pathway have 48 hours after release. Courts should try added therapeutic help before returning someone to jail for noncompliance. After all recommended treatment is completed, prosecutors must consider dismissal, but may consider another diversion program instead; dismissal is not guaranteed.
County grants support mental health diversion
Counties can seek one-year planning grants and three-year grants to start or expand treatment diversion, crisis response, and reentry services. Three-year grants can support specialized training for 911 call takers and emergency medical technicians to choose suitable response teams. Counties generally must match grant amounts with local resources, including in-kind help; matching resources must expand services, not replace existing funding. Fiscally constrained counties owe no planning match and generally owe a 50% implementation match, but qualifying grants to establish the misdemeanor diversion program require no local match for either grant type. Applications must address local needs, measurable results, projected savings, fewer state mental health commitments, and how services will continue.
Hillsborough gains a hospital diversion option
Beginning October 1, 2025, Hillsborough County becomes an authorized location for the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program. The state can implement it with the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. The law allows the additional location but does not require the program to open there.
Florida funds statewide mental health data
Beginning October 1, 2025, the Northwest Regional Data Center must create and run Florida’s Behavioral Health Care Data Repository. It collects and studies behavioral health data, including diversion, criminal justice, and incarceration information. Working with the state’s mental health data committee and stakeholders, the Center must address data sharing, security, measures, and oversight. Its operating plan and proposed budget are due to the Governor and Legislature by December 1, 2025; annual reports begin December 1, 2026. For fiscal year 2025–2026, the law provides $229,840 in one-time funding and $565,040 in recurring funding from General Revenue, not household payments.
Health checks before inmate work assignments
Beginning October 1, 2025, Florida’s corrections department must check the physical and mental health of inmates eligible for work assignments. This also covers correctional work programs, not every inmate. The department must record its approval before issuing work orders and retains authority to decide whether an assignment is suitable.
Required mental health care during probation
Beginning October 1, 2025, some defendants sentenced to probation must receive a mental health evaluation and follow every recommendation. This applies only to defendants previously found unable to proceed with their case because of mental illness. They must have later regained competency and then been sentenced to probation.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Jennifer Bradley
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Appropriations
Affiliation unavailable
Criminal Justice
Affiliation unavailable
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/2/2025
House Floor Vote
Yes: 99 • No: 0
House vote • 4/30/2025
House Floor Vote
Yes: 112 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/9/2025
Senate Floor Vote
Yes: 37 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/2/2025
Appropriations Vote
Yes: 18 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/4/2025
Criminal Justice Vote
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chapter No. 2025-180
6/26/2025Approved by Governor
6/25/2025Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
6/18/2025Ordered enrolled
5/2/2025SenateCS passed; YEAS 99, NAYS 0
5/2/2025HouseAmendment 870331 Recede
5/2/2025HouseAmendment 463357 Recede
5/2/2025HouseAmendment 149231 Recede
5/2/2025HouseSenate Message List
5/2/2025HouseIn Messages
5/2/2025HouseRequested House to recede -SJ 1135
5/2/2025SenateRefused to concur in 3 amendment(s) (149231, 463357, 870331) -SJ 1135
5/2/2025SenateIn returning messages
4/30/2025SenateCS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0
4/30/2025HouseRead 3rd time
4/30/2025HouseAdded to Third Reading Calendar
4/30/2025HousePlaced on 3rd reading
4/30/2025HouseAmendment 463357 adopted
4/30/2025HouseAmendment 870331 adopted
4/30/2025HouseAmendment 149231 adopted
4/30/2025HouseRead 2nd time
4/30/2025House1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
4/29/2025HouseBill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
4/29/2025HouseBill referred to House Calendar
4/29/2025HouseIn Messages
4/9/2025House
Bill Text
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10/1/2025
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4/4/2025
c1
3/5/2025
Filed
2/24/2025