---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sheriffs in Consolidated Governments"
description: "Sheriffs in Consolidated Governments; Authorizing sheriffs in a consolidated government, as well as all other sheriffs, to transfer funds after their budgets are approved by the board of county commissioners, city council, or budget commission, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1704"
citation: "Florida SB 1704 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-120"
primary_sponsors: ["Community Affairs", "Rules", "Yarborough"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c15cbbba-7c25-461a-a7d0-b88206c0b474"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1704/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7eac63b66efc335269f3aec651aaaa0dc86d64e0c5929747e49c53f3c51395d4"
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 1704 (2024) — Sheriffs in Consolidated Governments

Sheriffs in Consolidated Governments; Authorizing sheriffs in a consolidated government, as well as all other sheriffs, to transfer funds after their budgets are approved by the board of county commissioners, city council, or budget commission, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-120.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1704 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1704/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1704 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1704/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1704 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1704/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1704 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1704/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **25–12** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **86–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Community Affairs — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)
- Yarborough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-11** Referred to Community Affairs; Criminal Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/29/24, 1:30 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2024-01-29** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-31** Original reference(s) removed: Criminal Justice
- **2024-01-31** Remaining references corrected to Rules
- **2024-01-31** Now in Rules
- **2024-02-01** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2024-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/14/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-14** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-15** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-20** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2024-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed; YEAS 25 NAYS 12 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** 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 (Committee Substitute 2) `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** CS passed; YEAS 86, NAYS 23 `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. 2024-120

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c15cbbba-7c25-461a-a7d0-b88206c0b474`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).