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FL S0560
Bill
AI Summary
- Requires the Department of Children and Families and community-based care lead agencies to meet at least quarterly with organizations focused on empowering children with lived experience in the child welfare system, with meeting agendas and minutes posted publicly online
- Beginning February 1 and August 1, 2027, the department and lead agencies must publish biannual reports detailing how they implemented suggestions from these stakeholder meetings
- Limits when new medical reports are required for psychotropic medication prescribed to children in state custody to only when there are changes in dosage, medication type, administration method, or prescribing physician
- Excludes dependent children and certain foster youth over age 12 residing in licensed child-caring facilities from background screening requirements that apply to other household members
- Directs the Office of Insurance Regulation to analyze liability insurance data from the previous 5 fiscal years for community-based care lead agencies and report findings to the Governor and Legislature by January 1, 2027, with fines of $500-$1,000 per day for entities failing to respond to information requests
Legislative Description
Child Welfare
Last Action
In Messages
3/4/2026
Committee Referrals
Rules2/16/2026
Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services1/22/2026
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