SB 1604 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Corrections

Summary
Corrections; Revising provisions relating to deferral of prepayment of court costs and fees for indigent prisoners for actions involving challenges to prison disciplinary reports; providing for a 1-year period of limitation for bringing certain actions relating to the condition of confinement of prisoners; requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies before certain actions concerning confinement of prisoners may be brought; requiring a court to impose consecutive terms of imprisonment if the offender is convicted of multiple specified felony offenses, etc.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Mar 10, 2025 Last action Apr 24, 2025
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MAJOR
This bill updates Florida's corrections laws to strengthen prisoner rights, clarify mental health treatment procedures, and modify sentencing rules for serious felonies. Key changes include establishing a 1-year statute of limitations for prisoner civil rights claims, requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies before filing lawsuits, and creating new protections for inmates' mental health treatment consent and advance healthcare directives.
Scope change
The bill expands protections for prisoners by adding new statutory requirements for mental health treatment consent, self-injurious behavior protocols, and healthcare advance directives, while also modifying the scope of tracking device exemptions to include correctional officers more explicitly.
REQUIREMENT

Establishes a 1-year statute of limitations for prisoner civil rights actions and requires exhaustion of administrative remedies before filing lawsuits.

Requires inmates to provide express and informed consent for mental health treatment, with specific information disclosure requirements and emergency treatment protocols.

Creates new section for managing self-injurious behaviors, requiring wardens to consult treating physicians and establish court procedures for compelling medical treatment when safety is threatened.

Establishes procedures for inmate healthcare advance directives and proxies, allowing incapacitated inmates to designate healthcare decision-makers.

Repeals section 945.45 relating to continued placement of inmates in mental health treatment facilities.

Requires mental health treatment facilities to be secure and adequately equipped, with inmates offered least restrictive appropriate treatment based on assessed needs.

ENFORCEMENT

Requires courts to impose consecutive prison terms for multiple specified felony offenses and modifies consecutive sentencing rules for certain firearm-related felonies.

EXEMPTIONS

Expands exemptions from tracking device regulations to explicitly include correctional officers, juvenile probation officers, and authorized agents working in correctional facilities.

DEFINITION

Updates definitions for mental health treatment facility, crisis stabilization care, and transitional mental health care to clarify levels of care and facility designations.

TIMELINE

Sets specific timeframes for involuntary examination completion (10 days), status hearings (6-month intervals), and emergency treatment orders (72 hours).

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Actions timeline

Total actions
20
Key actions
8
Committee
9
Apr 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 14 NAYS 4
upper
Apr 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/22/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
upper
Apr 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Apr 15, 2025
Upper · Passed
CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 2
upper
Apr 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 04/15/25, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
upper
Mar 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
upper
Mar 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Mar 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
upper
Mar 10, 2025
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Committee
Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Legislator
Party
State
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Jonathan Martin
RRepublican
FL
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