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Bill	Hot Car Death Prevention	Hot Car Death Prevention; Designates month of April as "Hot Car Death Prevention Month"; encourages specified entities to sponsor events to promote public awareness on dangers of leaving child unattended in motor vehicle & provide methods to prevent hot car deaths.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 591	Florida HB 591 (2024)	bill	commercial relations	enacted	2024-66	Brannan Smith	3	44	2	2023-11-20	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/86eeabea-0777-4010-bbed-daa8181eee65	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/591/ByCategory	b1b27c06f6dc352d092b5272a69a8f0627aa1cb5e44c75345baa47b1aad85916	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 591 (2024) — Hot Car Death Prevention

Hot Car Death Prevention; Designates month of April as "Hot Car Death Prevention Month"; encourages specified entities to sponsor events to promote public awareness on dangers of leaving child unattended in motor vehicle & provide methods to prevent hot car deaths.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-66.

Version chain

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

1. H 591 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 591 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 591 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 118–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brannan — primary (person)
• Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Smith — primary (person)
• Bankson — cosponsor (person)
• Basabe — cosponsor (person)
• Casello — cosponsor (person)
• Chaney — cosponsor (person)
• Daniels — cosponsor (person)
• Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
• Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• Leek — cosponsor (person)
• Michael — cosponsor (person)
• Salzman — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
• Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-20 Filed filing
• 2023-11-30 Referred to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-30 Referred to Transportation & Modals Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-30 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2023-11-30 Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-22 Added to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-24 Favorable with CS by Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-24 Reported out of Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
• 2024-01-24 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-24 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-25 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-25 Referred to Transportation & Modals Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Now in Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
• 2024-01-29 Added to Transportation & Modals Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-31 Favorable by Transportation & Modals Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-31 Reported out of Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
• 2024-01-31 Now in Health & Human Services Committee
• 2024-02-06 Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
• 2024-02-08 Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-08 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
• 2024-02-08 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-02-08 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-12 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/15/2024)
• 2024-02-15 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-15 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-15 CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-15 In Messages
• 2024-02-16 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Received enrolled
• 2024-02-21 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2024-02-21 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-21 Substituted for CS/SB 554
• 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
• 2024-03-27 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Chapter No. 2024-66

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86eeabea-0777-4010-bbed-daa8181eee65. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).