2022 Regular Session • Florida Legislature
S0792: Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care
Legislative Summary
Specifying the rights of, rather than goals for, children and young adults in out-of-home care; providing the roles and responsibilities of the Department of Children and Families, community-based care lead agencies, and other agency staff; designating a children's ombudsman as an autonomous entity within the department; requiring the ombudsman, in consultation with the department and other specified entities and by a specified date, to develop standardized information explaining the rights of children and young adults placed in out-of-home care, etc.
Bill History
11/3/2021
Filed
Senate
11/16/2021
Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
Senate
11/22/2021
On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 11/30/21, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
Senate
11/30/2021
Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
Senate
11/30/2021
Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
Senate
1/11/2022
Introduced
Senate
3/12/2022
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
Senate
3/14/2022
Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
11/30/2021
7
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Failed(3/14/2022)
Chamber
Senate
Sine DiePrior Session
Sponsors
Democrat: 4
Republican: 1
Primary Sponsor

Loranne Ausley
Democrat