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Bill	Funeral Service Benefits for Public Safety Officers	Funeral Service Benefits for Public Safety Officers; Authorizes travel expenses for members of law enforcement agency for specified purpose; increases amount of money to be paid toward funeral & burial expenses of officers killed in line of duty; authorizes number of hours of administrative leave to be granted to members of law enforcement agency for specified purpose; authorizes head of law enforcement agency to deny such administrative leave; authorizes use of state motor vehicle to attend funeral within state of law enforcement officer who was killed in line of duty.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2023	HB 535	Florida HB 535 (2023)	bill	public business	enacted	2023-145	Botana	4	46	5	2023-01-26	2023-05-26	openstates	ocd-bill/9539a417-246c-43ac-b08f-feeb7b6551e5	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/535/ByCategory	ef7ade388478ee12452934177d5fa2dec67441b14acc889dde0eb9876095f1b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 535 (2023) — Funeral Service Benefits for Public Safety Officers

Funeral Service Benefits for Public Safety Officers; Authorizes travel expenses for members of law enforcement agency for specified purpose; increases amount of money to be paid toward funeral & burial expenses of officers killed in line of duty; authorizes number of hours of administrative leave to be granted to members of law enforcement agency for specified purpose; authorizes head of law enforcement agency to deny such administrative leave; authorizes use of state motor vehicle to attend funeral within state of law enforcement officer who was killed in line of duty.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-145.

Version chain

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

1. H 535 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 535 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 535 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 535 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 110–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee) — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Appropriations Committee) — 27–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (State Affairs Committee) — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Botana — primary (person)
• Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
• Bankson — cosponsor (person)
• Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
• Canady — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia — cosponsor (person)
• Leek — cosponsor (person)
• Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
• Plakon — cosponsor (person)
• Salzman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-26 Filed filing
• 2023-02-07 Referred to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-02-07 Referred to Appropriations Committee referral-committee
• 2023-02-07 Referred to State Affairs Committee referral-committee
• 2023-02-07 Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
• 2023-02-16 Added to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-02-23 Favorable with CS by Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-24 Reported out of Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
• 2023-02-24 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-02-24 CS Filed filing
• 2023-02-28 Referred to Appropriations Committee referral-committee
• 2023-02-28 Referred to State Affairs Committee referral-committee
• 2023-02-28 Now in Appropriations Committee
• 2023-03-07 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2023-03-07 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2023-03-13 Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
• 2023-03-15 Favorable by Appropriations Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-15 Reported out of Appropriations Committee
• 2023-03-15 Now in State Affairs Committee
• 2023-03-29 PCS added to State Affairs Committee agenda
• 2023-03-31 Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-31 Reported out of State Affairs Committee
• 2023-03-31 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-03-31 CS Filed filing
• 2023-03-31 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2023-04-03 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2023-04-03 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2023-04-10 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2023)
• 2023-04-13 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-13 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2023-04-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-04-13 CS passed; YEAS 110, NAYS 0 passage
• 2023-04-13 In Messages
• 2023-04-14 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2023-04-17 Received enrolled
• 2023-04-27 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2023-04-27 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2023-04-27 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 364
• 2023-04-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-04-27 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2023-04-27 In Messages
• 2023-04-27 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2023-05-22 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-25 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-26 Chapter No. 2023-145

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9539a417-246c-43ac-b08f-feeb7b6551e5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).