---
type: "Bill"
title: "Impeding, Threatening, or Harassing First Responders"
description: "Impeding, Threatening, or Harassing First Responders; Prohibiting a person, after receiving a warning not to approach from a first responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty, from violating such warning and approaching or remaining within a specified distance of the first responder with specified intent, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 184"
citation: "Florida SB 184 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-85"
primary_sponsors: ["Avila"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-10-11"
last_action: "2024-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19fe1417-ad6b-4580-a933-3b5469f5c37c"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/184/ByCategory"
source_hash: "695040bef83a30fbf722c6f8b05c4563a7857d2b0767e48fc1abd52f23f3df83"
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 184 (2024) — Impeding, Threatening, or Harassing First Responders

Impeding, Threatening, or Harassing First Responders; Prohibiting a person, after receiving a warning not to approach from a first responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty, from violating such warning and approaching or remaining within a specified distance of the first responder with specified intent, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-85.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 184 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/184/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 184 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/184/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 184 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/184/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **85–27** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Avila — primary (person)
- Hooper — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-11** Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-07** Referred to Criminal Justice; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-27** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 12/05/23, 2:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-12-05** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-12-05** Now in Community Affairs
- **2024-01-04** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/09/24, 4:30 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-10** Now in Rules
- **2024-01-19** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/24/24, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-24** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** 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** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-15** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-15** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-15** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024)
- **2024-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Amendment 752933 Failed
- **2024-03-05** Amendment 607261 Failed
- **2024-03-05** Amendment 476397 Failed
- **2024-03-05** Amendment 903751 adopted
- **2024-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Passed as amended; YEAS 85, NAYS 27 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** In returning messages
- **2024-03-07** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (903751)
- **2024-03-07** Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-10** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-12** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-12** Chapter No. 2024-85

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19fe1417-ad6b-4580-a933-3b5469f5c37c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).