republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-1653.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, chapter_law, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	chapter_law	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Duties and Prohibited Acts Associated with Death	Duties and Prohibited Acts Associated with Death; Authorizes report regarding specified deaths & circumstances to be made to law enforcement agency in addition to medical examiner; increases criminal penalty for failing or refusing to report death or for refusing to make available certain information with intent to conceal death or alter evidence & circumstances surrounding death; increases criminal penalty for willfully touching, removing, or disturbing body without order from office of district medical examiner with intent to conceal death or alter evidence & circumstances surrounding death.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 1653	Florida HB 1653 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-135	Giallombardo	3	44	2	2024-01-09	2024-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/896d378c-9c3b-440c-8236-07a98813ca0f	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1653/ByCategory	b7a401289f36035bfd3dde6a8238825cfcde56bede68b1e16fa2420a6c715c35	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 1653 (2024) — Duties and Prohibited Acts Associated with Death

Duties and Prohibited Acts Associated with Death; Authorizes report regarding specified deaths & circumstances to be made to law enforcement agency in addition to medical examiner; increases criminal penalty for failing or refusing to report death or for refusing to make available certain information with intent to conceal death or alter evidence & circumstances surrounding death; increases criminal penalty for willfully touching, removing, or disturbing body without order from office of district medical examiner with intent to conceal death or alter evidence & circumstances surrounding death.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-135.

Version chain

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

1. H 1653 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 1653 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 1653 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Giallombardo — primary (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Mooney — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Filed filing
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-13 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-13 Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-13 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-13 Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-23 Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-25 Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-25 Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-26 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-26 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-26 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-29 Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-02-01 Added to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-02-05 Favorable by Justice Appropriations Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-05 Reported out of Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-02-05 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2024-02-12 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2024-02-14 Favorable by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-14 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2024-02-14 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-02-14 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-26 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024)
• 2024-02-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-02-29 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-03-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-01 In Messages
• 2024-03-01 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2024-03-04 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-04 Substituted for CS/SB 768
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-04 In Messages
• 2024-03-04 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-26 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-29 Chapter No. 2024-135

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/896d378c-9c3b-440c-8236-07a98813ca0f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).