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

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Attorney Fees and Costs"
+description: "Attorney Fees and Costs; Defining the term “property rights”; requiring courts to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to a prevailing defendant in certain civil actions under specified circumstances, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 702"
+citation: "Florida SB 702 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["civil practice and procedure"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2024-232"
+primary_sponsors: ["Martin"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-12-05"
+last_action: "2024-06-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/943285d8-0090-4585-b81d-5c5346de583f"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/702/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "0e7b6ca6edc08e665dfe77780e1319f1f277755ef77855107ce9a9de60254067"
+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 SB 702 (2024) — Attorney Fees and Costs
+
+Attorney Fees and Costs; Defining the term “property rights”; requiring courts to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to a prevailing defendant in certain civil actions under specified circumstances, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-232.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 702 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/702/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 702 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/702/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Martin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-12-05** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-12-13** Referred to Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2024-01-11** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/16/24, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2024-01-16** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-01-16** Now in Rules
+- **2024-01-19** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/24/24, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2024-01-24** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-01-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2024-01-30** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/01/24
+- **2024-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-01** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2024-02-01** Immediately certified
+- **2024-02-01** In Messages
+- **2024-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2024-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024)
+- **2024-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
+- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-05** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-06** Passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2024-03-06** 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. 2024-232
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/943285d8-0090-4585-b81d-5c5346de583f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
+