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type: "Bill"
title: "Disposition of Unclaimed Property"
description: "Disposition of Unclaimed Property; Requiring the Department of Financial Services to provide copies of certain wills and trusts, and any codicils or amendments of such wills and trusts, to certain persons upon request; requiring specified agreements for certain claims; increasing the threshold required to use a different method of identity verification for electronic claims; requiring the department to adopt forms for an Unclaimed Property Recovery Agreement and an Unclaimed Property Purchase Agreement, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 425"
citation: "Florida HB 425 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-144"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 50
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-26"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd58febe-81cb-4396-8740-1a3a1a224d39"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/425/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b3e0e67189060bc22d6894f08c402ad7a5af6d7c4900cb4afbf1f166e1e68337"
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 425 (2021) — Disposition of Unclaimed Property
Disposition of Unclaimed Property; Requiring the Department of Financial Services to provide copies of certain wills and trusts, and any codicils or amendments of such wills and trusts, to certain persons upon request; requiring specified agreements for certain claims; increasing the threshold required to use a different method of identity verification for electronic claims; requiring the department to adopt forms for an Unclaimed Property Recovery Agreement and an Unclaimed Property Purchase Agreement, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-144.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 425 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/425/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 425 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/425/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 425 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/425/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 425 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/425/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Insurance & Banking Subcommittee) — **180** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee) — **150** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Commerce Committee) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **1180** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Insurance and Banking Subcommittee — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-26** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2021-02-10** Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-02-17** Favorable with CS by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2021-02-17** Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2021-02-18** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-02-18** CS Filed
- **2021-02-22** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Now in State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-01** Added to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-03-03** Favorable by State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03** Reported out of State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-03** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2021-03-05** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2021-03-09** Favorable by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2021-03-10** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2021-03-10** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-25** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/31/2021)
- **2021-03-31** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2021-03-31** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-01** Amendment 115109 filed
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2021)
- **2021-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Amendment 115109 adopted
- **2021-04-13** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-13** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** CS passed as amended; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** In Messages
- **2021-04-19** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Received
- **2021-04-21** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-21** Substituted for CS/SB 1434
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-21** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-144
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd58febe-81cb-4396-8740-1a3a1a224d39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).