---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hope Cards for Persons Issued Orders of Protection"
description: "Hope Cards for Persons Issued Orders of Protection; Requiring the clerks of the circuit court, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to develop and implement the Hope Card Program; requiring clerks’ offices to create a Hope Card and provide such card to petitioners within a specified time frame; providing criminal penalties for the fraudulent use of a Hope Card, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 86"
citation: "Florida SB 86 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["domestic relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-109"
primary_sponsors: ["Book", "Fiscal Policy", "Judiciary"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-10-03"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e95bcae-e513-4fdb-bf07-b90b807404b9"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/86/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e054cc15b544fe9408d28f9eb72afdfbaa57ec6afccde00d7c46f7cde5dc411d"
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 86 (2024) — Hope Cards for Persons Issued Orders of Protection

Hope Cards for Persons Issued Orders of Protection; Requiring the clerks of the circuit court, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to develop and implement the Hope Card Program; requiring clerks’ offices to create a Hope Card and provide such card to petitioners within a specified time frame; providing criminal penalties for the fraudulent use of a Hope Card, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-109.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 86 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/86/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 86 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/86/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 86 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/86/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 86 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/86/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 86 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/86/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 86 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/86/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Book — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Polsky — cosponsor (person)
- Yarborough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-03** Filed `filing`
- **2023-10-17** Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-04** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/09/24, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-09** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-10** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-10** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2024-01-11** 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 17 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-23** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
- **2024-02-27** CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Amendment(s) adopted (508086)
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** 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 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-29** Chapter No. 2024-109

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e95bcae-e513-4fdb-bf07-b90b807404b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).