Florida legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Florida S1128: Family Law
Status: Failed, March 13, 2026
Requiring that certain time-sharing matters be accorded priority on a court's calendar; providing procedural requirements for evidentiary hearings on motions seeking to establish temporary parental responsibility and time-sharing and on motions to enforce compliance with existing time-sharing orders; requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to prepare and publish on its website a publicly accessible annual report for certain evidentiary hearings held in each judicial circuit; requiring, rather than authorizing, a court to make a determination of appropriate parenting plans in certain proceedings, etc.
What the bill says
An act relating to family law; amending s. 61.13, F.S.; requiring that certain time-sharing matters be accorded priority on a court's calendar; providing procedural requirements for evidentiary hearings on motions seeking to establish temporary parental responsibility and time-sharing and on motions to enforce compliance with existing time-sharing orders; requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to prepare and publish on its website a publicly accessible annual report for certain evidentiary hearings held in each judicial circuit…
From the introduced text, February 12, 2026:
A bill to be entitled An act relating to family law; amending s. 61.13, F.S.; requiring that certain time-sharing matters be accorded priority on a court's calendar; providing procedural requirements for evidentiary hearings on motions seeking to establish temporary parental responsibility and time-sharing and on motions to enforce compliance with existing time-sharing orders; requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to prepare and publish on its website a publicly accessible annual report for certain evidentiary hearings held in each judicial circuit; requiring that the report include specified information; requiring the office to submit the report to the Legislature; prohibiting the reports from containing certain personal identifying information; authorizing the Supreme Court to adopt rules; amending s. 742.031, F.S.; requiring, rather than authorizing, a court to make a determination of appropriate parenting plans in certain proceedings; deleting provisions requiring the obligee parent to receive, or the mother to be presumed to have, all time-sharing and sole parental responsibility under certain circumstances; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (10) is added to section 61.13, Florida Statutes, to parenting and time-sharing; powers of court; evidentiary hearing reports.-- (10)(a) The following time-sharing matters must be accorded priority on the court's calendar: 1. An evidentiary hearing on an initial verified motion affirmatively …