---
type: "Bill"
title: "Citizen Volunteer Advisory Committees"
description: "Citizen Volunteer Advisory Committees; Authorizing specified regional citizen volunteer advisory committees to conduct public meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; requiring that such technology allow all persons to audibly communicate; providing notice requirements for public meetings or workshops conducted by means of communications media technology, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 224"
citation: "Florida SB 224 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public business"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-17"
primary_sponsors: ["Governmental Oversight and Accountability", "Rules", "Wright"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-10-18"
last_action: "2024-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ebf1d09-d6cd-46ab-94c0-c854eeeda54c"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/224/ByCategory"
source_hash: "003306b6d737efa9f6b7c9ce02bd044f3c37ac89d5b07739620d643dcb4506db"
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 224 (2024) — Citizen Volunteer Advisory Committees

Citizen Volunteer Advisory Committees; Authorizing specified regional citizen volunteer advisory committees to conduct public meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; requiring that such technology allow all persons to audibly communicate; providing notice requirements for public meetings or workshops conducted by means of communications media technology, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-17.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 224 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/224/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 224 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/224/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 224 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/224/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 224 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/224/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)
- Wright — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-18** Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-07** Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **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 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-10** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2024-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/22/24, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-01-22** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-23** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-23** Now in Rules
- **2024-01-24** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2024-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/30/24, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-30** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-01** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-01** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **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** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-14** 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 (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **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** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-19** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-22** Chapter No. 2024-17

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ebf1d09-d6cd-46ab-94c0-c854eeeda54c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).