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IntroducedFeb 27, 2025
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Passed HouseApr 25, 2025
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Passed SenateApr 29, 2025
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Signed into LawJun 23, 2025
Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel; Authorizes first responder amputees to continue to serve as first responders; creates Florida Medal of Valor & Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal; prohibits use of motor vehicle kill switches; requires mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for attempted murder in first degree committed against specified justice system personnel; prohibits depriving specified officers of digital recording devices or restraint devices, rendering them useless, or otherwise preventing officer from defending himself or herself or summoning assistance; revises requirements for reporting of missing persons information; creates Critical Infrastructure Mapping Grant Program within FDLE; specifies requirements for testing inmates for infectious diseases.
Last Action See all actions
legislature • Jun 24, 2025: Chapter No. 2025-176
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Companion Bills
Public Safety; Authorizing first responder amputees to continue to serve as first responders under certain circumstances; prohibiting the use of motor vehicle kill switches; providing that specified persons may carry concealed firearms under certain circumstances and use them in the same manner as on-duty law enforcement officers; prohibiting a person from depriving specified officers of digital r...
Public Safety; Establishes Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Unit within FDLE; revises definitions of "affiliated first responder organization" & "first responder" to include additional personnel in provisions relating to peer support for first responders; revises requirements for reporting of missing persons information; provides exemption from certain law enforcement basic training requiremen...
Interfering with an Officer’s Means of Protection or Communication; Prohibiting a person from depriving certain officers of digital recording devices or restraint devices; prohibiting a person from rendering useless certain officer’s weapons or radios, digital recording devices, or restraint devices, etc.
Public Safety; Citing this act as the “Florida First Responder and Florida Public Safety Act”; establishing a Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Unit within the Department of Law Enforcement; prohibiting first responder employment discrimination; providing for a unified 911 system for every county-level first responder agency by a specified date; requiring a 911 call center to dispatch the c...
Summary/Bill Text
Sponsors
- Judiciary Committeeprimary
- Budget Committeeprimary
- Criminal Justice Subcommitteeprimary
- Nixprimary
- Alvarez, D.primary
- Abbottcosponsor
- Alvarez, J.cosponsor
- Andersoncosponsor
- Boothcosponsor
- Fabriciocosponsor
- Owencosponsor
- Rizocosponsor
Votes
YES: 111
- Abbott
- Nix
- Albert
- Edmonds
- Nixon
- Alvarez, D.
- Eskamani
- Oliver
- Alvarez, J.
- Esposito
- Overdorf
- Fabricio
- Owen
- Andrade
- Franklin
- Partington
- Antone
- Gantt
- Perez
- Aristide
- Garrison
- Persons-Mulicka
- Baker
- Gentry
- Plakon
- Bankson
- Gerwig
- Giallombardo
- Porras
- Bartleman
- Gonzalez Pittman
- Rayner
- Basabe
- Gossett-Seidman
- Redondo
- Benarroch
- Gottlieb
- Rizo
- Berfield
- Greco
- Robinson, F.
- Black
- Griffitts
- Robinson, W.
- Blanco
- Grow
- Booth
- Harris
- Salzman
- Borrero
- Hart
- Sapp
- Botana
- Hinson
- Shoaf
- Brackett
- Sirois
- Bracy Davis
- Hunschofsky
- Skidmore
- Brannan
- Jacques
- Smith
- Buchanan
- Johnson
- Snyder
- Busatta
- Joseph
- Spencer
- Campbell
- Kendall
- Stark
- Canady
- Kincart Jonsson
- Steele
- Caruso
- Koster
- Tant
- Casello
- LaMarca
- Temple
- Cassel
- López, J.
- Tendrich
- Chamberlin
- Lopez, V.
- Tomkow
- Chambliss
- Maggard
- Chaney
- Maney
- Tramont
- Cobb
- Mayfield
- Tuck
- Conerly
- McClure
- Valdés
- Cross
- McFarland
- Weinberger
- Daley
- Melo
- Woodson
- Daniels
- Yarkosky
- Driskell
- Miller
- Yeager
- Duggan
- Mooney
NO: 0
Actions
- Jun 24, 2025 | legislature
- Chapter No. 2025-176
- Jun 23, 2025 | legislature
- Approved by Governor
- Jun 18, 2025 | legislature
- Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- Apr 29, 2025 | House
- In Messages
- Ordered enrolled
- Apr 29, 2025 | Senate
- Withdrawn from Rules
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 1444
- Read 2nd time
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
- Apr 28, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Rules
- Received
- Apr 25, 2025 | Senate
- In Messages
- Apr 25, 2025 | House
- Read 2nd time
- Amendment 791963 Failed
- Amendment 382679 adopted
- Placed on 3rd reading
- Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0
- Apr 24, 2025 | House
- Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- Added to Second Reading Calendar
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
- Added to Second Reading Calendar
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2025)
- Apr 22, 2025 | House
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2025)
- Apr 17, 2025 | House
- Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee
- Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- CS Filed
- Bill referred to House Calendar
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
- 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3)
- Apr 15, 2025 | House
- Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- Apr 10, 2025 | House
- Referred to Judiciary Committee
- Now in Judiciary Committee
- Apr 09, 2025 | House
- Reported out of Budget Committee
- Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- CS Filed
- 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- Apr 08, 2025 | House
- Favorable with CS by Budget Committee
- Apr 04, 2025 | House
- Added to Budget Committee agenda
- Mar 27, 2025 | House
- Referred to Budget Committee
- Referred to Judiciary Committee
- Now in Budget Committee
- Mar 26, 2025 | House
- Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- CS Filed
- 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- Mar 24, 2025 | House
- PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- Mar 05, 2025 | House
- Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Referred to Justice Budget Subcommittee
- Referred to Judiciary Committee
- Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Mar 04, 2025 | House
- 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- Feb 27, 2025 | House
- Filed
Bill Texts
- H 1371 FiledPDF
- H 1371 c1PDF
- H 1371 c2PDF
- H 1371 c3PDF
- H 1371 e1PDF
- H 1371 erPDF
- Committee Amendment 256077 (Adopted without Objection 4/8/2025) -- NixPDF
- Committee Strike All Amendment 757145 (Adopted 4/17/2025) -- NixPDF
- Floor Amendment 791963 (House: Failed 4/25/2025) -- GottliebPDF
- Floor Amendment 382679 (House: Adopted 4/25/2025) -- NixPDF
- Floor Amendment 255462 (Senate: Withdrawn 4/29/2025) -- PolskyPDF
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