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type: "Bill"
title: "Protection of Elderly Persons and Disabled Adults"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1041"
citation: "Florida HB 1041 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["estates and trusts"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-221"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-16"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfa1c050-ba6b-411e-b0d4-9b668e49cb31"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1041/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ec60f80a4c40b850db10e05826cf4c98e77a6927096394723dbad7fd66552a49"
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 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.
1. **H 1041 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1041/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1041 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1041/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1041 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1041/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 1041 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1041/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Judiciary Committee) — **150** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **1170** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee) — **160** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfa1c050-ba6b-411e-b0d4-9b668e49cb31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).