---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protection of Specified Adults"
description: "Protection of Specified Adults; Authorizing financial institutions, under certain circumstances, to delay a disbursement or transaction from an account of a specified adult; specifying that a delay on a disbursement or transaction expires on a certain date; authorizing the financial institution to extend the delay under certain circumstances; authorizing a court of competent jurisdiction to shorten or extend the delay, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 556"
citation: "Florida SB 556 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-200"
primary_sponsors: ["Banking and Insurance", "Rouson", "Rules"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-11-21"
last_action: "2024-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b287951d-f5b0-4c71-88c9-edfdc5ebc28c"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/556/ByCategory"
source_hash: "fefcf4b4cf740d40211a835877e3d37fd3296f978d7975c75d503435749910c2"
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 556 (2024) — Protection of Specified Adults

Protection of Specified Adults; Authorizing financial institutions, under certain circumstances, to delay a disbursement or transaction from an account of a specified adult; specifying that a delay on a disbursement or transaction expires on a certain date; authorizing the financial institution to extend the delay under certain circumstances; authorizing a court of competent jurisdiction to shorten or extend the delay, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-200.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 556 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/556/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 556 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/556/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 556 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/556/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 556 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/556/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **104–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Banking and Insurance — primary (person)
- Rouson — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-21** Filed `filing`
- **2023-12-05** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-11** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 01/16/24, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-16** CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-18** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-18** Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- **2024-01-18** CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
- **2024-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/30/24, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-01-30** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** Now in Rules
- **2024-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/24, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-26** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-27** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-28** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
- **2024-02-28** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** 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** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Amendment 249405 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** CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** In returning messages
- **2024-03-07** Refused to concur in 1 amendment(s) (249405)
- **2024-03-07** Requested House to recede
- **2024-03-07** In Messages
- **2024-03-07** Added to Senate Message List
- **2024-03-07** Amendment 249405 Recede
- **2024-03-07** CS passed; YEAS 104, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-29** Chapter No. 2024-200

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b287951d-f5b0-4c71-88c9-edfdc5ebc28c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).