republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-1491.md

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Bill	Pub. Rec./Investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs	Pub. Rec./Investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for information relating to investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs of certain social media violations; authorizing the department to disclose such information for specified purposes; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing an exemption from public records requirements for information relating to investigations by the department of certain age verification violations; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 1491	Florida HB 1491 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-54	Overdorf Tramont	5	46	3	2024-01-08	2024-04-03	openstates	ocd-bill/e40b775a-040a-4295-bdce-0dd72374a7e1	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1491/ByCategory	ce3ebce026593e1d0cf7baa2c112b72b2ef36a52d025c4a8bd311bad13f323b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 1491 (2024) — Pub. Rec./Investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs

Pub. Rec./Investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for information relating to investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs of certain social media violations; authorizing the department to disclose such information for specified purposes; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing an exemption from public records requirements for information relating to investigations by the department of certain age verification violations; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-54.

Version chain

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

1. H 1491 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 1491 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 1491 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 1491 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. H 1491 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage, Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 30–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Overdorf — primary (person)
• Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
• Tramont — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Filed filing
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Referred to State Affairs Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 Added to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-11 Favorable with CS by Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-11 Reported out of Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
• 2024-01-11 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-11 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-11 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-12 Referred to State Affairs Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Now in State Affairs Committee
• 2024-01-12 Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
• 2024-01-17 Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-17 Reported out of State Affairs Committee
• 2024-01-18 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-18 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-18 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-01-18 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (1/23/2024)
• 2024-01-18 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2024-01-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-23 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-01-23 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-01-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-24 CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-01-24 In Messages
• 2024-01-25 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Received enrolled
• 2024-02-12 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/15/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/21/24 --If Received enrolled
• 2024-03-01 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2024-03-01 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-01 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/24
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Amendment(s) adopted (644660)
• 2024-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 CS passed as amended; YEAS 30 NAYS 5 passage
• 2024-03-04 In Messages
• 2024-03-06 Added to Senate Message List
• 2024-03-06 Amendment 644660 Concur
• 2024-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-06 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-02 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-03 Chapter No. 2024-54; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 3 (Ch. 2024-42)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e40b775a-040a-4295-bdce-0dd72374a7e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).