---
type: "Bill"
title: "Online Protections for Minors"
description: "Online Protections for Minors; Requiring social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts; requiring social media platforms to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts; providing conditions under which social media platforms are required to prohibit certain minors from entering into contracts to become account holders; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for knowing or reckless violations; authorizing the department to issue and enforce civil investigative demands under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 3"
citation: "Florida HB 3 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-42"
primary_sponsors: ["McFarland", "Overdorf", "Rayner", "Sirois", "Tramont"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5323fdb8-757d-4f3b-a71d-4afa023bb920"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/3/ByCategory"
source_hash: "253e154b0a5e3c6fb6d6e849732aee243c5ec446d1e41d1c1adf8f33a692fa8d"
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 3 (2024) — Online Protections for Minors

Online Protections for Minors; Requiring social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts; requiring social media platforms to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts; providing conditions under which social media platforms are required to prohibit certain minors from entering into contracts to become account holders; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for knowing or reckless violations; authorizing the department to issue and enforce civil investigative demands under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-42.

## Version chain

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

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

## Votes

- Passage — **109–4** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **30–5** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- McFarland — primary (person)
- Overdorf — primary (person)
- Rayner — primary (person)
- Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Sirois — primary (person)
- Tramont — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Beltran — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Botana — cosponsor (person)
- Brackett — cosponsor (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Canady — cosponsor (person)
- Caruso — cosponsor (person)
- Chamberlin — cosponsor (person)
- Chambliss — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Fabricio — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzalez Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory — cosponsor (person)
- Jacques — cosponsor (person)
- Leek — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
- Massullo — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Melo — cosponsor (person)
- Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Payne — cosponsor (person)
- Persons-Mulicka — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Temple — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Truenow — cosponsor (person)
- Tuck — cosponsor (person)
- Waldron — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)
- Yeager — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** Added to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-11** Favorable with CS by Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-11** Reported out of Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
- **2024-01-11** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-11** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-11** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-12** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-12** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2024-01-12** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2024-01-17** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-17** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2024-01-18** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-18** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-18** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-01-18** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (1/23/2024)
- **2024-01-18** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-23** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-24** CS passed; YEAS 119, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-01-24** In Messages
- **2024-01-25** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/15/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/21/24 --If Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-01** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Amendment(s) adopted (961382)
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 30 NAYS 5 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-06** Added to Senate Message List
- **2024-03-06** Amendment 961382 Concur
- **2024-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-25** Chapter No. 2024-42; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1491 (Ch. 2024-54)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5323fdb8-757d-4f3b-a71d-4afa023bb920`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).