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| Bill | Protection of Elderly Persons and Disabled Adults | Protection of Elderly Persons and Disabled Adults; Adds offenses to authority of Office of Statewide Prosecution; provides person convicted of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of elderly person or disabled adult is not qualified to act as personal representative; provides for forfeiture of specified benefits of persons convicted of offenses concerning elderly persons or disabled adults; provides persons convicted of offenses concerning elderly persons or disabled adults may still retain inheritance, survivorship rights, other rights, or trust interest if victim executes specified instrument; specifies additional conduct that constitutes abuse or exploitation of elderly person or disabled adult; revises provisions concerning injunctions for protection; provides for extension of ex parte temporary injunctions. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2021 | HB 1041 | Florida HB 1041 (2021) |
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enacted | 2021-221 | 4 | 39 | 4 | 2021-02-16 | 2021-07-06 | openstates | ocd-bill/bfa1c050-ba6b-411e-b0d4-9b668e49cb31 | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1041/ByCategory | ec60f80a4c40b850db10e05826cf4c98e77a6927096394723dbad7fd66552a49 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 1041 (2021) — Protection of Elderly Persons and Disabled Adults
Protection of Elderly Persons and Disabled Adults; Adds offenses to authority of Office of Statewide Prosecution; provides person convicted of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of elderly person or disabled adult is not qualified to act as personal representative; provides for forfeiture of specified benefits of persons convicted of offenses concerning elderly persons or disabled adults; provides persons convicted of offenses concerning elderly persons or disabled adults may still retain inheritance, survivorship rights, other rights, or trust interest if victim executes specified instrument; specifies additional conduct that constitutes abuse or exploitation of elderly person or disabled adult; revises provisions concerning injunctions for protection; provides for extension of ex parte temporary injunctions.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-221.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- H 1041 Filed (filed) — source
- H 1041 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 1041 e1 (engrossed) — source
- H 1041 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Judiciary Committee) — 15–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee) — 16–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-02-16 Filed
filing - 2021-02-25 Referred to Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2021-02-25 Referred to Judiciary Committee
referral-committee - 2021-02-25 Now in Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
- 2021-03-02 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- 2021-03-08 Added to Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee agenda
- 2021-03-10 Favorable by Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-03-10 Reported out of Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
- 2021-03-10 Now in Judiciary Committee
- 2021-03-22 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- 2021-03-24 Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee
- 2021-03-25 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- 2021-03-25 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- 2021-03-25 CS Filed
- 2021-03-25 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- 2021-03-29 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2021-03-29 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2021-04-08 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/15/2021)
- 2021-04-09 Amendment 157851 filed
- 2021-04-15 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-15 Amendment 157851 adopted
- 2021-04-15 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-15 CS passed as amended; YEAS 117, NAYS 0
passage - 2021-04-15 Immediately certified
- 2021-04-15 Message sent to senate
- 2021-04-15 In Messages
- 2021-04-19 Referred to Appropriations
referral-committee - 2021-04-20 Received
- 2021-04-26 Withdrawn from Appropriations
withdrawal - 2021-04-26 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2021-04-26 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1344
- 2021-04-26 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-26 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-26 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
passage - 2021-04-26 In Messages
- 2021-04-26 Ordered enrolled
- 2021-06-28 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- 2021-06-29 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2021-07-06 Chapter No. 2021-221
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfa1c050-ba6b-411e-b0d4-9b668e49cb31. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).