---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retention of Sexual Offense Evidence"
description: "Retention of Sexual Offense Evidence; Requiring that specified sexual offense evidence be retained by specified entities for a minimum number of years after the collection date; requiring that such evidence be stored anonymously in a secure, environmentally safe manner, and with a documented chain of custody; providing requirements for the transferring, storing, and destruction of such sexual offense evidence, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 764"
citation: "Florida SB 764 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-169"
primary_sponsors: ["Criminal Justice", "Fiscal Policy", "Stewart"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-12-06"
last_action: "2024-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb3ca215-2e63-484f-8436-6ff048ae0b80"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/764/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c38468c886197181004a3c8a18377af13901d96aba984eb6a0f2fa7bb961c7b3"
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 764 (2024) — Retention of Sexual Offense Evidence

Retention of Sexual Offense Evidence; Requiring that specified sexual offense evidence be retained by specified entities for a minimum number of years after the collection date; requiring that such evidence be stored anonymously in a secure, environmentally safe manner, and with a documented chain of custody; providing requirements for the transferring, storing, and destruction of such sexual offense evidence, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-169.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 764 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/764/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 764 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/764/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 764 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/764/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 764 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/764/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 764 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/764/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 764 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/764/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Criminal Justice — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-06** Filed `filing`
- **2023-12-15** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-05** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/10/24, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-11** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2024-01-12** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2024-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/08/24, 2:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-02-08** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-12** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2024-02-13** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- **2024-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-22** CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-23** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
- **2024-02-27** CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Amendment(s) adopted (408362)
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** In Messages
- **2024-02-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `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 112, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-25** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-10** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-13** Chapter No. 2024-169

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb3ca215-2e63-484f-8436-6ff048ae0b80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).