Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities"
+description: "Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities; Requires court to consider certain factors when determining if extraordinary circumstances exist; provides certain actions do not change whether real property is marital property; provides that business interests in closely held business is marital asset; requires court to consider certain factors when determining value of such interest; provides that certain real property is nonmarital asset."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 521"
+citation: "Florida HB 521 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["civil practice and procedure"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2024-237"
+primary_sponsors: ["Koster"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-11-17"
+last_action: "2024-06-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c6e5523-3a00-45d3-82ba-cb3875246e67"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/521/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "77c093c410a183f71396c49b5f8bc3a5e6bec7ae0e015ce092df13d62c62cfe9"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
+---
+
+# Florida HB 521 (2024) — Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities
+
+Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities; Requires court to consider certain factors when determining if extraordinary circumstances exist; provides certain actions do not change whether real property is marital property; provides that business interests in closely held business is marital asset; requires court to consider certain factors when determining value of such interest; provides that certain real property is nonmarital asset.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-237.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **H 521 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/521/BillText/Filed/PDF)
+2. **H 521 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/521/BillText/er/PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Koster — primary (person)
+- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
+- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-11-17** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-11-30** Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
+- **2023-11-30** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2023-11-30** Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
+- **2024-01-09** Added to Civil Justice Subcommittee agenda
+- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
+- **2024-01-11** Favorable by Civil Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-01-12** Reported out of Civil Justice Subcommittee
+- **2024-01-12** Now in Judiciary Committee
+- **2024-01-26** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
+- **2024-01-30** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-01-30** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
+- **2024-01-30** Bill released to House Calendar
+- **2024-01-30** Added to Second Reading Calendar
+- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
+- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-21** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-22** Passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2024-02-22** In Messages
+- **2024-02-23** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
+- **2024-02-28** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
+- **2024-02-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2024-02-28** Substituted for SB 534
+- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-28** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2024-02-28** In Messages
+- **2024-02-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-30** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-17** Chapter No. 2024-237
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c6e5523-3a00-45d3-82ba-cb3875246e67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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