republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-549.md

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Bill	Theft	Theft; Reducing minimum threshold amount for grand theft of third degree; creates new offense of grand theft offenses; provides enhanced criminal penalties for committing petit theft of first degree & having certain previous convictions; revises number of thefts required within specified aggregation period required to commit specified violation for retail theft; revises specified timeframes in which individual acts of retail theft may be aggregated; prohibits retail theft with specified number of other persons for specified purpose; prohibits retail theft when social media platform is used to solicit participation; requires person convicted of retail theft to pay specified restitution.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 549	Florida HB 549 (2024)	bill	(vetoed)	enacted	2024-69	Rommel	4	49	3	2023-11-20	2024-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/aace059d-0505-4d74-8064-0950d9d0d2bd	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/549/ByCategory	b85850c0864168c403eccee9c62f24572f4fc2769b56d4a980a81c2cd633c227	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 549 (2024) — Theft

Theft; Reducing minimum threshold amount for grand theft of third degree; creates new offense of grand theft offenses; provides enhanced criminal penalties for committing petit theft of first degree & having certain previous convictions; revises number of thefts required within specified aggregation period required to commit specified violation for retail theft; revises specified timeframes in which individual acts of retail theft may be aggregated; prohibits retail theft with specified number of other persons for specified purpose; prohibits retail theft when social media platform is used to solicit participation; requires person convicted of retail theft to pay specified restitution.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-69.

Version chain

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

1. H 549 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 549 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 549 e1 (engrossed) — source
4. H 549 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 36–3 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 83–27 (pass) · lower
• Passage, Third Reading — 84–31 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Rommel — primary (person)
• Botana — cosponsor (person)
• Canady — cosponsor (person)
• Chaney — cosponsor (person)
• Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
• Leek — cosponsor (person)
• Roth — cosponsor (person)
• Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• Tant — cosponsor (person)
• Truenow — cosponsor (person)
• Tuck — cosponsor (person)
• Yeager — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-20 Filed filing
• 2023-11-30 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-30 Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-30 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2023-11-30 Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-08 PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-10 Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-10 Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-10 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-10 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-11 Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-01-11 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-22 Added to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-24 Favorable by Justice Appropriations Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-24 Reported out of Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-01-24 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2024-02-12 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2024-02-14 Favorable by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-14 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2024-02-14 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-02-14 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 Amendment 226775 Failed
• 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 CS passed; YEAS 84, NAYS 31 passage
• 2024-02-22 In Messages
• 2024-02-23 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2024-03-05 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-05 Substituted for CS/SB 1222
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-05 Amendment(s) adopted (942840)
• 2024-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 3 passage
• 2024-03-05 In Messages
• 2024-03-07 Added to Senate Message List
• 2024-03-07 Amendment 942840 Concur
• 2024-03-07 CS passed as amended; YEAS 83, NAYS 27 passage
• 2024-03-07 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-08 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-09 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-09 Chapter No. 2024-69

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aace059d-0505-4d74-8064-0950d9d0d2bd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).