---
type: "Bill"
title: "Security Grants"
description: "Security Grants; Expands Nonprofit Security Grant Program to include additional organizations; specifies that grants may be used for certain materials; revises criteria to be awarded grant; requires DEM to provide information to Legislature annually by specified date; provides appropriations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023C"
identifier: "HB 7C"
citation: "Florida HB 7C (2023C)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["appropriations", "military affairs and related matters"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-352"
primary_sponsors: ["Fine"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-11-02"
last_action: "2023-11-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/924b20eb-7c56-4f21-b142-2148a617e7a9"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023C/7C/ByCategory"
source_hash: "901f56fc452185d141f85be709a785406b600869f9d54c931add7fe39c006a5b"
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 7C (2023C) — Security Grants

Security Grants; Expands Nonprofit Security Grant Program to include additional organizations; specifies that grants may be used for certain materials; revises criteria to be awarded grant; requires DEM to provide information to Legislature annually by specified date; provides appropriations.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-352.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 7C Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023C/7C/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 7C c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023C/7C/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 7C er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023C/7C/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Appropriations Committee) — **28–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee — primary (organization)
- Fine — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Berfield — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Canady — cosponsor (person)
- Caruso — cosponsor (person)
- Cassel — cosponsor (person)
- Chamberlin — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Daley — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
- Leek — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Maney — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Melo — cosponsor (person)
- Payne — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Porras — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-02** Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-02** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-02** Now in Appropriations Committee
- **2023-11-02** Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
- **2023-11-06** Favorable with CS by Appropriations Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-11-06** Reported out of Appropriations Committee
- **2023-11-06** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-11-06** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-06** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-11-06** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (11/7/2023)
- **2023-11-06** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-11-06** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-11-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-11-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-11-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-11-07** CS passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-11-07** In Messages
- **2023-11-07** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-07** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-11-08** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2023-11-08** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-11-08** Substituted for SB 6-C
- **2023-11-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-11-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-11-08** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-11-08** In Messages
- **2023-11-08** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-11-13** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-11-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-11-14** Chapter No. 2023-352

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/924b20eb-7c56-4f21-b142-2148a617e7a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).