---
type: "Bill"
title: "Injured Police Canines"
description: "Injured Police Canines; Authorizing licensed life support services to transport injured police canines under certain circumstances; authorizing a paramedic or an emergency medical technician to provide emergency medical care to injured police canines under certain circumstances; providing for immunity from criminal and civil liability under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 388"
citation: "Florida SB 388 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-119"
primary_sponsors: ["Wright"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-28"
last_action: "2021-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5031c38-d458-47a7-82fa-d199b0efbed6"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/388/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d20523f5be0ac06e41919708d64790abb968c8f2fd22d376d83d59185b3ab4bf"
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 388 (2021) — Injured Police Canines

Injured Police Canines; Authorizing licensed life support services to transport injured police canines under certain circumstances; authorizing a paramedic or an emergency medical technician to provide emergency medical care to injured police canines under certain circumstances; providing for immunity from criminal and civil liability under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-119.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 388 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/388/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 388 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/388/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 388 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/388/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wright — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-28** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Health Policy; Criminal Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/04/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-02-04** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-04** Now in Criminal Justice
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/16/21, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-02-16** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-17** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-01** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/04/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-04** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-09** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/14/21
- **2021-04-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-14** Amendment(s) adopted (154184)
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** Passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-14** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-14** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** Passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-18** Chapter No. 2021-119

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5031c38-d458-47a7-82fa-d199b0efbed6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).