CHILDREN/DCFS: Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to obtain background checks on all employees (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 803.

Effective date: 08/01/2026.

Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

Signed by the President of the Senate.

Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Scheduled for concurrence on 05/26/2026.

Received from the Senate with amendments.

Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

Reported with amendments.

Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2026.

Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

Reported favorably (9-0).

Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

Prefiled.

Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.