---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program"
description: "Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program; Creates Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program within FDLE; provides for annual award of grants; specifies uses of grants; requires annual report by each grant recipient; & provides rulemaking authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 847"
citation: "Florida HB 847 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-141"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d36a7016-75aa-4d71-8b90-502f7f304095"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/847/ByCategory"
source_hash: "fdb78c908cb383c162d8dd6efcd8527298b697e2862c21b4937999537fa3614f"
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 HB 847 (2025) — Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program

Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program; Creates Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program within FDLE; provides for annual award of grants; specifies uses of grants; requires annual report by each grant recipient; & provides rulemaking authority.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-141.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 847 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/847/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 847 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/847/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 847 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/847/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-02** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-02** Referred to Justice Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-02** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-02** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-17** Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-19** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-20** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-20** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-20** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2025-04-04** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2025-04-08** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2025-04-08** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025)
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-16** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-24** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-24** Substituted for CS/SB 1072
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-24** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-16** Chapter No. 2025-141

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d36a7016-75aa-4d71-8b90-502f7f304095`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).