---
type: "Bill"
title: "Funeral Service Benefits for Public Safety Officers"
description: "Funeral Service Benefits for Public Safety Officers; Authorizes travel expenses for members of law enforcement agency for specified purpose; increases amount of money to be paid toward funeral & burial expenses of officers killed in line of duty; authorizes number of hours of administrative leave to be granted to members of law enforcement agency for specified purpose; authorizes head of law enforcement agency to deny such administrative leave; authorizes use of state motor vehicle to attend funeral within state of law enforcement officer who was killed in line of duty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 535"
citation: "Florida HB 535 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public business"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-145"
primary_sponsors: ["Botana"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 46
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-26"
last_action: "2023-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9539a417-246c-43ac-b08f-feeb7b6551e5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/535/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ef7ade388478ee12452934177d5fa2dec67441b14acc889dde0eb9876095f1b6"
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 535 (2023) — Funeral Service Benefits for Public Safety Officers

Funeral Service Benefits for Public Safety Officers; Authorizes travel expenses for members of law enforcement agency for specified purpose; increases amount of money to be paid toward funeral & burial expenses of officers killed in line of duty; authorizes number of hours of administrative leave to be granted to members of law enforcement agency for specified purpose; authorizes head of law enforcement agency to deny such administrative leave; authorizes use of state motor vehicle to attend funeral within state of law enforcement officer who was killed in line of duty.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-145.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 535 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/535/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 535 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/535/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 535 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/535/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 535 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/535/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Appropriations Committee) — **27–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (State Affairs Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Botana — primary (person)
- Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Canady — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Leek — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2023-02-16** Added to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-02-23** Favorable with CS by Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** Reported out of Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2023-02-24** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-02-24** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Now in Appropriations Committee
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-03-13** Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
- **2023-03-15** Favorable by Appropriations Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Reported out of Appropriations Committee
- **2023-03-15** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2023-03-29** PCS added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2023-03-31** Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2023-03-31** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-03-31** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-31** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-03** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-03** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2023)
- **2023-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-13** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-13** CS passed; YEAS 110, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-13** In Messages
- **2023-04-14** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-04-27** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2023-04-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-27** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 364
- **2023-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-27** In Messages
- **2023-04-27** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-22** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-26** Chapter No. 2023-145

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9539a417-246c-43ac-b08f-feeb7b6551e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).