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Florida 2026

SB 7018

Child Welfare

Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-18 15:11:01 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Florida
Session
2026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
judicial branch, k, social welfare
Introduced / first action
2026-01-05 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

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

  • Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (primary), primary

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Died in Messages

    failure
  2. In Messages

  3. Immediately certified

  4. Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0

    passage
  5. Read 3rd time

    reading-3
  6. Read 2nd time

    reading-2
  7. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26

  8. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

  9. Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable
  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

    committee-passage-favorable
  13. On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/04/26, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building

  14. Introduced

    introduction
  15. Referred to Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations

    referral-committee
  16. Filed

    filing
  17. Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0

  18. On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/12/26, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building

  19. Submitted for consideration by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs