Florida legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Florida S168: Mental Health
Status: Chaptered, June 26, 2025
Citing this act as the "Tristin Murphy Act"; expanding the programs and diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators and emergency medical technicians for certain purposes and to include veterans treatment court programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish misdemeanor or ordinance violation mental health diversion programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; expanding eligibility for the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program to include Hillsborough County, etc.
Sponsors
- Appropriations · primary sponsor
- Criminal Justice · primary sponsor
- Bradley, Jennifer (R, SD-006) · primary sponsor
- Garcia, Ileana (R, SD-036)
- Albritton, Ben (R, SD-027)
- Arrington, Kristen (D, SD-025)
- Bryan Avila (R, 39)
- Berman, Lori (D, SD-026)
- Bernard, Mack (D, SD-024)
- Boyd, Jim (R, SD-020)
- Brodeur, Jason (R, SD-010)
- Burgess, Danny (R, SD-023)
Votes
- House: Third Reading RCS#417 (May 2, 2025): 99 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Third Reading RCS#383 (April 30, 2025): 112 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#3 (April 9, 2025): 37 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#2 (April 9, 2025): 37 yea, 0 nay, passed