The Florida Senate

HB 327: Placement of Surrendered Newborn Infants

GENERAL BILL by Abbott ; Temple

Placement of Surrendered Newborn Infants; Requires community-based care lead agencies to maintain specified registry; requires that certain information be removed from registry; prohibits lead agency from transferring certain costs to prospective adoptive parents; revises entity responsible for surrendered infants from licensed child-placing agencies to community-based care lead agencies; provides requirements for lead agencies once they take physical custody of surrendered newborn infant.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  11/3/2023	House	• Filed
  11/22/2023	House	• Referred to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee • Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee • Referred to Health & Human Services Committee • Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
  1/9/2024	House	• 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  3/8/2024	House	• Died in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee

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• HB 327, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/3/2023 at 12:21 PM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 306 (c1)	Placement of Surrendered Newborn Infants	Harrell	Compare	Last Action: 3/8/2024 S Died in Fiscal Policy

  Citations - Statutes (5)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  39.201	Required reports of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect, sexual abuse of a child, and juvenile sexual abuse; required reports of death; reports involving a child who has exhibited inappropriate sexual behavior.	Page 7 (pdf)
  63.032	Definitions.	Page 2 (pdf)
  63.039	Duty of adoption entity to prospective adoptive parents; sanctions.	Page 2 (pdf)
  63.0423	Procedures with respect to surrendered infants.	Page 3 (pdf)
  383.50	Treatment of surrendered newborn infant.	Page 6 (pdf)

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