SB 1128 Florida Senate · 2026 Regular Session

Family Law

Summary

Family Law; 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.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action Mar 13, 2026

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S 1128 Filed → S 1128 c1 · 6 edits

MODERATE

This bill was amended to add a requirement for the Office of the State Courts Administrator to publish an annual report on family law evidentiary hearings, clarify filing procedures for temporary parenting plans, and correct minor grammatical errors throughout. The core policy provisions regarding judge availability and time-sharing priorities remain substantially the same, but the amended version adds oversight reporting requirements and refines procedural details.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded to include a new requirement for the Office of the State Courts Administrator to prepare and publish an annual report on evidentiary hearings, which was not present in the original version.

REQUIREMENT

Added requirement for Office of the State Courts Administrator to prepare and publish an annual report on evidentiary hearings held in each judicial circuit, including statistics on hearing numbers, average processing times, and compliance rates.

Changed the filing requirement for temporary parenting plans from 'initial pleading' to 'initial verified motion filed separately from the initial petition,' with a 10-day deadline for the responding party to file their proposed plan.

Modified the deadline for issuing orders on time-sharing enforcement motions from '5 business days' to '5 days after the conclusion of the evidentiary hearing' to clarify when the deadline begins.

Added prohibition on including personal identifying information of litigants or minor children in the annual reports.

Added authority for the Supreme Court to adopt rules implementing the annual reporting requirements, including data collection and reporting standards.

TECHNICAL

Corrected grammatical errors throughout, including changing 'shall may' to 'may also' and 'parties parents' to 'parties' in section 742.031.

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Committee

Feb 12, 2026

Upper · Passed

Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

upper

Feb 12, 2026

Upper · Passed

Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

upper

Feb 5, 2026

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/10/26, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building

upper

Jan 13, 2026

Introduced

upper

Jan 12, 2026

Committee

Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors