---
type: "Bill"
title: "Duties and Prohibited Acts Associated with Death"
description: "Duties and Prohibited Acts Associated with Death; Authorizes report regarding specified deaths & circumstances to be made to law enforcement agency in addition to medical examiner; increases criminal penalty for failing or refusing to report death or for refusing to make available certain information with intent to conceal death or alter evidence & circumstances surrounding death; increases criminal penalty for willfully touching, removing, or disturbing body without order from office of district medical examiner with intent to conceal death or alter evidence & circumstances surrounding death."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1653"
citation: "Florida HB 1653 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-135"
primary_sponsors: ["Giallombardo"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/896d378c-9c3b-440c-8236-07a98813ca0f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1653/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b7a401289f36035bfd3dde6a8238825cfcde56bede68b1e16fa2420a6c715c35"
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 1653 (2024) — Duties and Prohibited Acts Associated with Death

Duties and Prohibited Acts Associated with Death; Authorizes report regarding specified deaths & circumstances to be made to law enforcement agency in addition to medical examiner; increases criminal penalty for failing or refusing to report death or for refusing to make available certain information with intent to conceal death or alter evidence & circumstances surrounding death; increases criminal penalty for willfully touching, removing, or disturbing body without order from office of district medical examiner with intent to conceal death or alter evidence & circumstances surrounding death.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-135.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1653 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1653/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1653 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1653/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1653 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1653/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Giallombardo — primary (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2024-01-23** Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-25** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-25** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2024-01-26** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-26** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-02-01** Added to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-02-05** Favorable by Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-05** Reported out of Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-02-05** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2024-02-12** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2024-02-14** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-14** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2024-02-14** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2024-02-14** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024)
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-01** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 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 768
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-29** Chapter No. 2024-135

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/896d378c-9c3b-440c-8236-07a98813ca0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).