---
type: "Bill"
title: "Salvage"
description: "Salvage; Revising provisions relating to obtaining a salvage certificate of title or certificate of destruction; exempting the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from liability to certain persons as a result of the issuance of such certificates; providing requirements for an independent entity’s release of a damaged or dismantled vessel to the owner; authorizing the independent entity to apply for certain certificates for an unclaimed vessel, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1350"
citation: "Florida SB 1350 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["vessels"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-218"
primary_sponsors: ["DiCeglie", "Transportation"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-04"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dddc9ea4-7b07-46bd-873b-16fe0b2ed123"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1350/ByCategory"
source_hash: "29a8a1075ba16f560db677e14320b278e642d335a1ffec439e4e90dc6717f98c"
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 SB 1350 (2024) — Salvage

Salvage; Revising provisions relating to obtaining a salvage certificate of title or certificate of destruction; exempting the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from liability to certain persons as a result of the issuance of such certificates; providing requirements for an independent entity’s release of a damaged or dismantled vessel to the owner; authorizing the independent entity to apply for certain certificates for an unclaimed vessel, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-218.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1350 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1350/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1350 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1350/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1350 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1350/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1350 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1350/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- DiCeglie — primary (person)
- Transportation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-04** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Transportation; Environment and Natural Resources; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-18** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 01/23/24, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-01-23** CS by Transportation; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-24** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-25** Now in Environment and Natural Resources
- **2024-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 01/30/24, 1:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2024-01-25** CS by Transportation read 1st time
- **2024-01-30** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2024-02-02** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/07/24, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-07** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/21/24
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Amendment(s) adopted (469420)
- **2024-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-21** In Messages
- **2024-02-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024)
- **2024-02-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-29** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2024-02-29** Substituted for CS/HB 1517
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Chapter No. 2024-218

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dddc9ea4-7b07-46bd-873b-16fe0b2ed123`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).