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Bill	Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities	Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities; Requires court to consider certain factors when determining if extraordinary circumstances exist; provides certain actions do not change whether real property is marital property; provides that business interests in closely held business is marital asset; requires court to consider certain factors when determining value of such interest; provides that certain real property is nonmarital asset.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 521	Florida HB 521 (2024)	bill	civil practice and procedure	enacted	2024-237	Koster	2	34	2	2023-11-17	2024-06-17	openstates	ocd-bill/2c6e5523-3a00-45d3-82ba-cb3875246e67	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/521/ByCategory	77c093c410a183f71396c49b5f8bc3a5e6bec7ae0e015ce092df13d62c62cfe9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 521 (2024) — Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities

Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets and Liabilities; Requires court to consider certain factors when determining if extraordinary circumstances exist; provides certain actions do not change whether real property is marital property; provides that business interests in closely held business is marital asset; requires court to consider certain factors when determining value of such interest; provides that certain real property is nonmarital asset.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-237.

Version chain

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

1. H 521 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 521 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Koster — primary (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Rizo — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-17 Filed filing
• 2023-11-30 Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-30 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2023-11-30 Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 Added to Civil Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-11 Favorable by Civil Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-12 Reported out of Civil Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-12 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2024-01-26 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2024-01-30 Favorable by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-30 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2024-01-30 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-01-30 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
• 2024-02-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-22 Passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-22 In Messages
• 2024-02-23 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Received enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2024-02-28 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-28 Substituted for SB 534
• 2024-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-28 In Messages
• 2024-02-28 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-05-30 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-13 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-06-17 Chapter No. 2024-237

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c6e5523-3a00-45d3-82ba-cb3875246e67. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).