republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-49.md

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Bill	Employment	Employment; Removing certain employment restrictions for minors 16 and 17 years of age; revising the age at which certain employment restrictions apply; providing for the waiver of a specified restriction by specified persons; restricting the amount of continuous hours certain minors may work without a break for a minimum specified time period; authorizing the department to grant a waiver of the restrictions imposed under the act; providing penalties, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 49	Florida HB 49 (2024)	bill	labor	enacted	2024-25	Chaney	5	70	5	2023-09-18	2024-03-22	openstates	ocd-bill/e04a65d2-fc37-469f-8b56-b20fa0caa43b	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/49/ByCategory	7892bc158f4a5a4832d60fe4b68221f20ad1f6dee8f1f48009c572b503cf92ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 49 (2024) — Employment

Employment; Removing certain employment restrictions for minors 16 and 17 years of age; revising the age at which certain employment restrictions apply; providing for the waiver of a specified restriction by specified persons; restricting the amount of continuous hours certain minors may work without a break for a minimum specified time period; authorizing the department to grant a waiver of the restrictions imposed under the act; providing penalties, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-25.

Version chain

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

1. H 49 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 49 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 49 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 49 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. H 49 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 80–35 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with 1 amendment — 15–3 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 76–33 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chaney — primary (person)
• Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Canady — cosponsor (person)
• Giallombardo — cosponsor (person)
• Leek — cosponsor (person)
• Maggard — cosponsor (person)
• McClain — cosponsor (person)
• Roach — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-09-18 Filed filing
• 2023-10-05 Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-10-05 Referred to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-10-05 Referred to Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2023-10-05 Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
• 2023-12-06 Added to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-12-13 Favorable with CS by Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-12-14 Reported out of Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
• 2023-12-14 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-12-14 CS Filed filing
• 2023-12-19 Referred to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-12-19 Referred to Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2023-12-19 Now in Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
• 2024-01-08 Added to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-10 Favorable with CS by Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-11 Reported out of Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts 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 2) reading-1
• 2024-01-16 Referred to Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Now in Commerce Committee
• 2024-01-19 Added to Commerce Committee agenda
• 2024-01-23 Favorable by Commerce Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-24 Reported out of Commerce Committee
• 2024-01-24 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-01-24 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-01-24 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/1/2024)
• 2024-02-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 291251 ruled out of order
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 291969 Failed
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 503451 ruled out of order
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 466201 Failed
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 505305 Failed
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 301331 Failed
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 042703 Failed
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 693245 Failed
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 547001 Failed
• 2024-02-01 Amendment 684503 Failed
• 2024-02-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-01 CS passed; YEAS 80, NAYS 35 passage
• 2024-02-01 In Messages
• 2024-02-02 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 Received enrolled
• 2024-02-21 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/24, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-26 Favorable with 1 amendment(s) by- Rules (736582); YEAS 15 NAYS 3
• 2024-02-27 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Amendments)
• 2024-03-04 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-04 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/24
• 2024-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-06 Amendment(s) adopted (736582)
• 2024-03-06 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-07 Amendment(s) reconsidered, adopted as amended (407902)
• 2024-03-07 CS passed as amended; YEAS 27 NAYS 11 passage
• 2024-03-07 In Messages
• 2024-03-08 Added to Senate Message List
• 2024-03-08 Amendment 679511 adopted
• 2024-03-08 Concurred in Senate amendment 407902 as amended
• 2024-03-08 CS passed as amended; YEAS 76, NAYS 33 passage
• 2024-03-08 In returning messages
• 2024-03-08 Concurred in House amendment(s) to Senate amendment(s) (679511)
• 2024-03-08 CS passed as amended; YEAS 27 NAYS 11 passage
• 2024-03-08 In Messages
• 2024-03-08 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-08 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-21 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-03-22 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-22 Chapter No. 2024-25

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e04a65d2-fc37-469f-8b56-b20fa0caa43b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).