republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-461.md

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Bill	Excusal from Jury Service	Excusal from Jury Service; Requires that woman who has recently given birth be excused from certain jury service under specified conditions.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 461	Florida HB 461 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-122	Amesty	3	38	2	2023-11-14	2024-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/c6a0063b-e571-4d7e-be73-658a5491568c	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/461/ByCategory	14ddd36de767506a65cf833abedba49a32d077a89fc98ddcde2362cce7268480	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 461 (2024) — Excusal from Jury Service

Excusal from Jury Service; Requires that woman who has recently given birth be excused from certain jury service under specified conditions.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-122.

Version chain

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

1. H 461 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 461 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 461 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Amesty — primary (person)
• Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
• Bankson — cosponsor (person)
• Basabe — cosponsor (person)
• Canady — cosponsor (person)
• Daniels — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia — cosponsor (person)
• Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Plakon — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-14 Filed filing
• 2023-11-22 Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-22 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2023-11-22 Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
• 2023-11-29 Added to Civil Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-12-06 Favorable by Civil Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-12-06 Reported out of Civil Justice Subcommittee
• 2023-12-06 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2023-12-22 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2024-01-08 Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-08 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2024-01-08 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-08 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-11 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-01-11 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 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; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-01-18 In Messages
• 2024-01-19 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Received enrolled
• 2024-02-14 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2024-02-14 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-14 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 462
• 2024-02-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-14 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-14 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-14 Immediately certified
• 2024-02-14 In Messages
• 2024-02-14 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. 2024-122

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6a0063b-e571-4d7e-be73-658a5491568c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).