republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-1227.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day"
description: "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day; Designates Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, which occurs on fourth Thursday in March, as legal holiday."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1227"
citation: "Florida HB 1227 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["commercial relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-83"
primary_sponsors: ["Antone", "Bankson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-04"
last_action: "2024-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9af85e59-1f84-493f-a614-5f1b54b791c5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1227/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5ee738523e27dc197f3d7e0811b44357d42472416079b518abf7ff948a8ebb35"
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 1227 (2024) — Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day

Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day; Designates Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, which occurs on fourth Thursday in March, as legal holiday.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-83.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1227 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1227/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1227 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1227/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Cosponsorship, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Antone — primary (person)
- Bankson — primary (person)
- Abbott — cosponsor (person)
- Altman — cosponsor (person)
- Alvarez — cosponsor (person)
- Amesty — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Andrade — cosponsor (person)
- Arrington — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Beltran — cosponsor (person)
- Berfield — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Borrero — cosponsor (person)
- Botana — cosponsor (person)
- Brackett — cosponsor (person)
- Bracy Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Brannan — cosponsor (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Busatta Cabrera — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Canady — cosponsor (person)
- Caruso — cosponsor (person)
- Cassel — cosponsor (person)
- Chamberlin — cosponsor (person)
- Chambliss — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Clemons — cosponsor (person)
- Daley — cosponsor (person)
- Daniels — cosponsor (person)
- Driskell — cosponsor (person)
- Duggan — cosponsor (person)
- Dunkley — cosponsor (person)
- Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Esposito — cosponsor (person)
- Fabricio — cosponsor (person)
- Fine — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Gantt — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Garrison — cosponsor (person)
- Giallombardo — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzalez Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
- Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
- Grant — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory — cosponsor (person)
- Griffitts — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)
- Hinson — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Jacques — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- Keen — cosponsor (person)
- Killebrew — cosponsor (person)
- Koster — cosponsor (person)
- LaMarca — cosponsor (person)
- Leek — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Maggard — cosponsor (person)
- Maney — cosponsor (person)
- Massullo — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Melo — cosponsor (person)
- Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
- Payne — cosponsor (person)
- Perez — cosponsor (person)
- Persons-Mulicka — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Porras — cosponsor (person)
- Rayner — cosponsor (person)
- Redondo — cosponsor (person)
- Renner — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Roach — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, F. — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Rommel — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Rudman — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Shoaf — cosponsor (person)
- Silvers — cosponsor (person)
- Skidmore — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- Stark — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Stevenson — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Temple — cosponsor (person)
- Tomkow — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Tramont — cosponsor (person)
- Truenow — cosponsor (person)
- Tuck — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Waldron — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)
- Yeager — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-04** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-13** Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2024-01-30** Added to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-02-01** Favorable by Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-01** Reported out of Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2024-02-01** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2024-02-05** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2024-02-07** Favorable by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-07** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2024-02-07** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2024-02-07** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** Passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** In Messages
- **2024-02-23** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-05** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-05** Substituted for SB 1312
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** In Messages
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-02** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-12** Chapter No. 2024-83

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9af85e59-1f84-493f-a614-5f1b54b791c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).