---
type: "Bill"
title: "Value of Motor Vehicles Exempt from Legal Process"
description: "Value of Motor Vehicles Exempt from Legal Process; Increasing the value of a motor vehicle owned by a natural person which is exempt from legal process, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 158"
citation: "Florida SB 158 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["homestead and exemptions"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-110"
primary_sponsors: ["Polsky"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-10-10"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5d99440-ecb7-4821-b9c3-9f61bc1bbb71"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/158/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7f3e5072911acf66ac32f8a39b02706486550461aae4dd18baa29e0f6d3482de"
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 158 (2024) — Value of Motor Vehicles Exempt from Legal Process

Value of Motor Vehicles Exempt from Legal Process; Increasing the value of a motor vehicle owned by a natural person which is exempt from legal process, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-110.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 158 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/158/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 158 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/158/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Polsky — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-10** Filed `filing`
- **2023-10-17** Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-04** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/09/24, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-09** Now in Community Affairs
- **2024-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/22/24, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2024-01-22** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-23** Now in Rules
- **2024-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/30/24, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-30** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-31** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-08** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/14/24
- **2024-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-14** Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-14** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** 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. 2024-110

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5d99440-ecb7-4821-b9c3-9f61bc1bbb71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).