---
type: "Bill"
title: "Code Inspector Body Cameras"
description: "Code Inspector Body Cameras; Requiring a governmental entity that permits its code inspectors to wear body cameras to establish certain policies and procedures; requiring such governmental entity to ensure that certain training occurs, to retain certain data in accordance with public records laws, and to perform a periodic review of actual body camera practices; providing that certain provisions relating to the interception of wire, electronic, and oral communications do not apply to body camera recordings made by code inspectors, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 504"
citation: "Florida SB 504 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-48"
primary_sponsors: ["Burgess"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-11-14"
last_action: "2026-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdade4a4-bd63-4632-9ef9-b4380bae4ec5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/504/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ca336f6f78876dce1ca03d7b657b179754a0b2da262a31b8572af20fbed8a68c"
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 504 (2026) — Code Inspector Body Cameras

Code Inspector Body Cameras; Requiring a governmental entity that permits its code inspectors to wear body cameras to establish certain policies and procedures; requiring such governmental entity to ensure that certain training occurs, to retain certain data in accordance with public records laws, and to perform a periodic review of actual body camera practices; providing that certain provisions relating to the interception of wire, electronic, and oral communications do not apply to body camera recordings made by code inspectors, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-48.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 504 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/504/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 504 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/504/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 504 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/504/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **23–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Burgess — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-14** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-01** Referred to Community Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/13/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-13** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2026-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 01/21/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-21** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2026-01-22** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-01-22** Now in Rules
- **2026-01-29** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- **2026-01-29** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-03** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-09** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/11/26
- **2026-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-11** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-11** In Messages
- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** CS passed; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-24** Chapter No. 2026-48

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fdade4a4-bd63-4632-9ef9-b4380bae4ec5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).