republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-3.md

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Bill	Online Protections for Minors	Online Protections for Minors; Requiring social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts; requiring social media platforms to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts; providing conditions under which social media platforms are required to prohibit certain minors from entering into contracts to become account holders; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for knowing or reckless violations; authorizing the department to issue and enforce civil investigative demands under certain circumstances, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 3	Florida HB 3 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-42	McFarland Overdorf Rayner Sirois Tramont	5	46	3	2024-01-05	2024-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/5323fdb8-757d-4f3b-a71d-4afa023bb920	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/3/ByCategory	253e154b0a5e3c6fb6d6e849732aee243c5ec446d1e41d1c1adf8f33a692fa8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 3 (2024) — Online Protections for Minors

Online Protections for Minors; Requiring social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts; requiring social media platforms to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts; providing conditions under which social media platforms are required to prohibit certain minors from entering into contracts to become account holders; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for knowing or reckless violations; authorizing the department to issue and enforce civil investigative demands under certain circumstances, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-42.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Passage — 109–4 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 30–5 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 119–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
• McFarland — primary (person)
• Overdorf — primary (person)
• Rayner — primary (person)
• Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Sirois — primary (person)
• Tramont — primary (person)
• Anderson — cosponsor (person)
• Bankson — cosponsor (person)
• Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
• Beltran — cosponsor (person)
• Black — cosponsor (person)
• Botana — cosponsor (person)
• Brackett — cosponsor (person)
• Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
• Canady — cosponsor (person)
• Caruso — cosponsor (person)
• Chamberlin — cosponsor (person)
• Chambliss — cosponsor (person)
• Chaney — cosponsor (person)
• Fabricio — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzalez Pittman — cosponsor (person)
• Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory — cosponsor (person)
• Jacques — cosponsor (person)
• Leek — cosponsor (person)
• Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
• Massullo — cosponsor (person)
• McClain — cosponsor (person)
• Melo — cosponsor (person)
• Michael — cosponsor (person)
• Mooney — cosponsor (person)
• Payne — cosponsor (person)
• Persons-Mulicka — cosponsor (person)
• Plakon — cosponsor (person)
• Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
• Roth — cosponsor (person)
• Salzman — cosponsor (person)
• Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• Steele — cosponsor (person)
• Temple — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
• Truenow — cosponsor (person)
• Tuck — cosponsor (person)
• Waldron — cosponsor (person)
• Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)
• Yeager — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Filed filing
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Judiciary 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 Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2024-01-12 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2024-01-17 Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-17 Reported out of Judiciary 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 119, 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 (961382)
• 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 961382 Concur
• 2024-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 4 passage
• 2024-03-06 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-21 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-03-25 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-25 Chapter No. 2024-42; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1491 (Ch. 2024-54)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5323fdb8-757d-4f3b-a71d-4afa023bb920. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).