---
type: "Bill"
title: "Qualifications for County Emergency Management Directors"
description: "Qualifications for County Emergency Management Directors; Requiring county emergency management directors to meet specified qualifications; requiring current such directors to meet such qualifications by specified date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1567"
citation: "Florida HB 1567 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["military affairs and related matters"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-193"
primary_sponsors: ["Grant"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bedc2cd-a611-4392-b7a9-38fcc6f32852"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1567/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7ddfa3ba9bb40b1b0b57a2fb641a083dedc990ae7e0852ff51f2b90e2039084c"
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 1567 (2024) — Qualifications for County Emergency Management Directors

Qualifications for County Emergency Management Directors; Requiring county emergency management directors to meet specified qualifications; requiring current such directors to meet such qualifications by specified date.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-193.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1567 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1567/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1567 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1567/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1567 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1567/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1567 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1567/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1567 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1567/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Grant — primary (person)
- State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2024-01-22** PCS added to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-24** Favorable with CS by Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** Reported out of Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2024-01-24** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-24** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-24** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-25** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2024-02-12** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2024-02-14** Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-14** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2024-02-15** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-15** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-15** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-16** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2024)
- **2024-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** Amendment 068369 adopted
- **2024-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-04** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1262
- **2024-03-04** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Chapter No. 2024-193

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bedc2cd-a611-4392-b7a9-38fcc6f32852`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).