---
type: "Bill"
title: "Attorney Fees and Costs"
description: "Attorney Fees and Costs; Defining the term “property rights”; requiring courts to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to a prevailing defendant in certain civil actions under specified circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 702"
citation: "Florida SB 702 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["civil practice and procedure"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-232"
primary_sponsors: ["Martin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-12-05"
last_action: "2024-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/943285d8-0090-4585-b81d-5c5346de583f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/702/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0e7b6ca6edc08e665dfe77780e1319f1f277755ef77855107ce9a9de60254067"
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 702 (2024) — Attorney Fees and Costs

Attorney Fees and Costs; Defining the term “property rights”; requiring courts to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to a prevailing defendant in certain civil actions under specified circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-232.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 702 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/702/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 702 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/702/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Martin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-05** Filed `filing`
- **2023-12-13** Referred to Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-11** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/16/24, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-16** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-16** 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 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-01-30** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/01/24
- **2024-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-01** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-01** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-01** 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** 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; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-17** Chapter No. 2024-232

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/943285d8-0090-4585-b81d-5c5346de583f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).