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type: "Bill"
title: "Courts"
description: "Courts; Revises requirements for storage of DCA & Supreme Court materials; requires specified entities to prepare plan to develop electronic solution for identifying assessments; provides periodic inflationary adjustment of monetary jurisdictional limit for county court actions; requires EDR to calculate & certify jurisdictional limit; requires specified entities to post on their websites such adjusted jurisdictional limit; requires DCA clerks to have office at headquarters; authorizes person summoned for jury service to postpone such service in event of emergency; authorizes electronic fingerprinting for certain offenses; removes requirement defendant's social security number be obtained at time of fingerprinting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1197"
citation: "Florida HB 1197 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-230"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 45
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-22"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4caa4ebe-fef9-4657-8032-c7da7a0cb715"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1197/ByCategory"
source_hash: "4bc8af90fabfb83eade92c5cae0728f930609510f8857cabd2be25de07de67ef"
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 1197 (2021) — Courts
Courts; Revises requirements for storage of DCA & Supreme Court materials; requires specified entities to prepare plan to develop electronic solution for identifying assessments; provides periodic inflationary adjustment of monetary jurisdictional limit for county court actions; requires EDR to calculate & certify jurisdictional limit; requires specified entities to post on their websites such adjusted jurisdictional limit; requires DCA clerks to have office at headquarters; authorizes person summoned for jury service to postpone such service in event of emergency; authorizes electronic fingerprinting for certain offenses; removes requirement defendant's social security number be obtained at time of fingerprinting.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-230.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 1197 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1197/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1197 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1197/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1197 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1197/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee) — **160** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Justice Appropriations Subcommittee) — **150** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Judiciary Committee) — **150** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Civil Justice and Property Rights Subcommittee — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-22** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Now in Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-19** Added to Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-23** Favorable with CS by Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
- **2021-03-23** Reported out of Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
- **2021-03-23** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-03-23** CS Filed
- **2021-03-24** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-03-24** Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-26** Added to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-30** Favorable by Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Reported out of Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-30** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2021-04-02** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2021-04-06** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-06** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2021-04-06** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2021-04-06** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-19** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/22/2021)
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-22** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-23** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-23** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-23** 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 748
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 40 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. 2021-230
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4caa4ebe-fef9-4657-8032-c7da7a0cb715`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).