SB 1796 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Siblings Placed in Out-of-home Care

Summary
Siblings Placed in Out-of-home Care; Providing for the importance of visitation, and not just contact, between siblings who have been separated; requiring the court to hold a hearing, take evidence, and hear arguments if a motion for sibling visitation or contact is contested; providing that a court retains jurisdiction over a dependent child in a permanent guardianship for certain purposes relating to sibling visitation or contact, etc.
Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Mar 10, 2025 Last action Jun 16, 2025
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Committee
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Mar 10, 2025
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Mar 7, 2025
Committee
Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Alexis Calatayud
RRepublican
FL
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