republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-305.md

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Bill	Offenses Involving Children	Offenses Involving Children; Increases maximum age of child victim of specified acts whose out of court statements may be admissible in certain circumstances; provides that first offense of specified sex trafficking offenses involving minors requires designation of defendant as sexual predator.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 305	Florida HB 305 (2024)	bill	evidence executive branch	enacted	2024-71	Baker	4	40	2	2023-10-31	2024-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/5efa9842-57f4-4870-9521-0aa30fba4ba4	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/305/ByCategory	0b27213c529acc199ecda44f106c1b6889c671af628a73f43874e6916ae5fff9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 305 (2024) — Offenses Involving Children

Offenses Involving Children; Increases maximum age of child victim of specified acts whose out of court statements may be admissible in certain circumstances; provides that first offense of specified sex trafficking offenses involving minors requires designation of defendant as sexual predator.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-71.

Version chain

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

1. H 305 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 305 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 305 e1 (engrossed) — source
4. H 305 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Baker — primary (person)
• Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Basabe — cosponsor (person)
• Bell — cosponsor (person)
• Chamberlin — cosponsor (person)
• Jacques — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• McClain — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
• Tuck — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-10-31 Filed filing
• 2023-11-13 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-13 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2023-11-13 Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2023-12-05 Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-12-12 Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-12-13 Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2023-12-13 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-12-13 CS Filed filing
• 2023-12-18 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2023-12-18 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2023-12-22 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2024-01-08 Favorable by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-08 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2024-01-08 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-09 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-01-11 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (1/17/2024)
• 2024-01-17 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-17 Amendment 711849 adopted
• 2024-01-17 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-01-17 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-01-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-18 CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-01-18 In Messages
• 2024-01-19 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Received enrolled
• 2024-02-21 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2024-02-21 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-21 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 312
• 2024-02-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-21 Immediately certified
• 2024-02-21 In Messages
• 2024-02-21 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-08 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-10 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-11 Chapter No. 2024-71

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5efa9842-57f4-4870-9521-0aa30fba4ba4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).