---
type: "Bill"
title: "Restitution"
description: "Restitution; Providing for the purposes of restitution in a criminal proceeding; specifying the standards for valuation of a restitution order; authorizing a court to consider hearsay evidence regarding valuation of a restitution award under certain circumstances; providing for the purposes of restitution in a delinquency proceeding; specifying the standards for valuation of a restitution order; authorizing a court to consider hearsay evidence regarding valuation of a restitution award under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 354"
citation: "Florida SB 354 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-172"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-21"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd4409bf-d81d-40a6-948d-2e5f20713d63"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/354/ByCategory"
source_hash: "87493feaa70eedb36e9bad1fab7b469e42907695c063c1ef9a87f7a67e807685"
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 354 (2021) — Restitution

Restitution; Providing for the purposes of restitution in a criminal proceeding; specifying the standards for valuation of a restitution order; authorizing a court to consider hearsay evidence regarding valuation of a restitution award under certain circumstances; providing for the purposes of restitution in a delinquency proceeding; specifying the standards for valuation of a restitution order; authorizing a court to consider hearsay evidence regarding valuation of a restitution award under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-172.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 354 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/354/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 354 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/354/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 354 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/354/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 354 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/354/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **15–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harrell — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-12-21** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/15/21, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-02-15** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-02-18** Now in Criminal Justice
- **2021-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/02/21, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2021-03-03** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-18** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/18/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2021-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/25/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-25** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 2
- **2021-03-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-30** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/07/21
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-07** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-172

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd4409bf-d81d-40a6-948d-2e5f20713d63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).