---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Safety"
description: "School Safety; Revises provisions & establishes reporting requirements for school guardian programs & school guardians; revises school safety requirements for DOE, school districts, charter schools, & school safety specialists."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1473"
citation: "Florida HB 1473 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-155"
primary_sponsors: ["Hunschofsky", "Trabulsy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 50
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-07"
last_action: "2024-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/741adace-ddb5-417e-a652-1f10e0e10c5e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1473/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6bdd7859186a1d46da2fbd50f0af03b40405f1a75edd6756673aaa2e41a84fa0"
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 1473 (2024) — School Safety

School Safety; Revises provisions & establishes reporting requirements for school guardian programs & school guardians; revises school safety requirements for DOE, school districts, charter schools, & school safety specialists.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-155.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1473 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1473/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1473 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1473/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1473 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1473/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1473 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1473/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1473 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1473/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Education & Employment Committee — primary (organization)
- Hunschofsky — primary (person)
- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- Trabulsy — primary (person)
- Botana — cosponsor (person)
- Canady — cosponsor (person)
- Daley — cosponsor (person)
- Dunkley — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Massullo — cosponsor (person)
- Tuck — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-07** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2024-01-26** PCS added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2024-01-30** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-31** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2024-01-31** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-31** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-01** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Now in Appropriations Committee
- **2024-02-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
- **2024-02-08** Favorable by Appropriations Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** Reported out of Appropriations Committee
- **2024-02-08** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2024-02-12** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2024-02-14** Favorable with CS by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2024-02-15** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-15** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-15** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
- **2024-02-15** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** In Messages
- **2024-02-23** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-04** Substituted for CS/SB 1356
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Amendment(s) adopted (536102)
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-07** Added to Senate Message List
- **2024-03-07** Amendment 536102 Concur
- **2024-03-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-22** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-07** Chapter No. 2024-155; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1509 (Ch. 2024-156)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/741adace-ddb5-417e-a652-1f10e0e10c5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).