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IntroducedNov 17, 2025
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Passed SenateMar 04, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 11, 2026
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Became Law
Florida Senate Bill
Department of Law Enforcement; Authorizing the Department of Law Enforcement to adopt rules relating to the Florida Medal of Valor and the Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal; specifying the circumstances under which an appointment or reappointment to the Medical Examiners Commission is considered in force; requiring the commission, rather than the Governor, to appoint district medical examiners for each medical examiner district; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to accept and process fingerprints taken of natural persons who are control persons of a licensee or are applicants for licensure, etc.
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Senate • Mar 13, 2026: In returning messages
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Summary
Comments on SB 524
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Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Fiscal Policyprimary

Votes
YES: 111
- Abbott
- Eskamani
- Oliver
- Albert
- Esposito
- Overdorf
- Alvarez, D.
- Fabricio
- Owen
- Alvarez, J.
- Franklin
- Partington
- Anderson
- Gantt
- Perez
- Andrade
- Garrison
- Persons-Mulicka
- Gentry
- Plakon
- Aristide
- Gerwig
- Baker
- Giallombardo
- Porras
- Bankson
- Gonzalez Pittman
- Rayner
- Barnaby
- Gossett-Seidman
- Redondo
- Bartleman
- Gottlieb
- Rizo
- Basabe
- Greco
- Robinson, F.
- Benarroch
- Griffitts
- Robinson, W.
- Berfield
- Grow
- Black
- Harris
- Salzman
- Blanco
- Hart-Lowman
- Sapp
- Booth
- Hinson
- Shoaf
- Borrero
- Hodgers
- Sirois
- Botana
- Holcomb
- Skidmore
- Boyles
- Hunschofsky
- Smith
- Brackett
- Jacques
- Snyder
- Brannan
- Johnson
- Spencer
- Buchanan
- Stark
- Busatta
- Kendall
- Steele
- Campbell
- Kincart Jonsson
- Tant
- Canady
- Koster
- Cassel
- LaMarca
- Tomkow
- Chamberlin
- Long
- Chambliss
- López, J.
- Tramont
- Chaney
- Maggard
- Tuck
- Cobb
- Maney
- Valdés
- Conerly
- McClure
- Weinberger
- Cross
- McFarland
- Woodson
- Daley
- Melo
- Yarkosky
- Daniels
- Michael
- Yeager
- Driskell
- Miller
- Young
- Duggan
- Mooney
- Dunkley
- Nix
- Edmonds
- Nixon
NO: 0
Actions
- Mar 13, 2026 | Senate
- In returning messages
- Mar 13, 2026 | House
- Added to Senate Message List
- Insisted on amendment 222029
- Insisted on amendment, and requested the Senate to concur
- Mar 12, 2026 | House
- In Messages
- Mar 12, 2026 | Senate
- Refused to concur, requested House to recede
- Mar 11, 2026 | Senate
- In returning messages
- Mar 11, 2026 | House
- Read 2nd time
- Amendment 222029 adopted
- Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0
- Mar 10, 2026 | House
- Bill referred to House Calendar
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
- 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- Mar 05, 2026 | House
- In Messages
- Mar 04, 2026 | Senate
- Read 2nd time
- Amendment(s) adopted (712722)
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
- Feb 26, 2026 | Senate
- Retained on Special Order Calendar
- Feb 25, 2026 | Senate
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
- Feb 24, 2026 | Senate
- CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- Feb 19, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/24/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- Feb 02, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/05/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- Jan 21, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- Now in Fiscal Policy
- Jan 16, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 01/21/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- Jan 13, 2026 | Senate
- Introduced
- Jan 12, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- Jan 05, 2026 | Senate
- On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/12/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- Dec 01, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
- Nov 17, 2025 | Senate
- Filed
Bill Texts
- S 524 FiledHTML
- S 524 c1HTML
- S 524 e1HTML
- Committee Amendment 873924 (Replaced by Substitute Amendment 2/24/2026) -- Fiscal Policy (Simon)PDF
- Committee Substitute Amendment 432900 (Replaced by Committee Substitute 2/24/2026) -- Fiscal Policy (Simon)PDF
- Floor Amendment 220246 (Senate: Withdrawn 3/3/2026) -- SimonPDF
- Floor Amendment 712722 (Senate: Adopted 3/4/2026) -- SimonPDF
- Floor Amendment 316338 (Senate: Withdrawn 3/3/2026) -- SimonPDF
- Floor Amendment 222029 (House: Insisted on Amendment 3/13/2026) -- SiroisPDF
- Floor Amendment 150807 (House: Withdrawn 3/11/2026) -- HinsonPDF
Documents
- Bill Analysis -- Criminal Justice (Pre-Meeting) (1/9/2026 1:28 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Criminal Justice (Post-Meeting) (1/12/2026 4:09 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (Pre-Meeting) (1/20/2026 11:25 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (Post-Meeting) (1/21/2026 4:02 PM)
- Bill Analysis -- Fiscal Policy (Pre-Meeting) (2/23/2026 8:58 AM)
- Bill Analysis -- Fiscal Policy (Post-Meeting) (2/24/2026 3:44 PM)
- House Message Summary -- Criminal Justice (3/11/2026 6:19 PM)
