---
type: "Bill"
title: "Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities"
description: "Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities; Requires court to consider certain factors when determining if extraordinary circumstances exist; provides certain actions do not change whether real property is marital property; provides that business interests in closely held business is marital asset; requires court to consider certain factors when determining value of such interest; provides that certain real property is nonmarital asset."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 521"
citation: "Florida HB 521 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["civil practice and procedure"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-237"
primary_sponsors: ["Koster"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-11-17"
last_action: "2024-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c6e5523-3a00-45d3-82ba-cb3875246e67"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/521/ByCategory"
source_hash: "77c093c410a183f71396c49b5f8bc3a5e6bec7ae0e015ce092df13d62c62cfe9"
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 521 (2024) — Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities

Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities; Requires court to consider certain factors when determining if extraordinary circumstances exist; provides certain actions do not change whether real property is marital property; provides that business interests in closely held business is marital asset; requires court to consider certain factors when determining value of such interest; provides that certain real property is nonmarital asset.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-237.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 521 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/521/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 521 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/521/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Koster — primary (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-17** Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-30** Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-30** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-30** Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** Added to Civil Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-11** Favorable by Civil Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-12** Reported out of Civil Justice Subcommittee
- **2024-01-12** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2024-01-26** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2024-01-30** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2024-01-30** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2024-01-30** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
- **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** Passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** In Messages
- **2024-02-23** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-02-28** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2024-02-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-28** Substituted for SB 534
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** In Messages
- **2024-02-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-17** Chapter No. 2024-237

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c6e5523-3a00-45d3-82ba-cb3875246e67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).