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Bill	Supported Decisionmaking Authority	Supported Decisionmaking Authority; Requires court to consider needs & abilities of person with developmental disability when determining whether to appoint guardian advocate; provides requirements for petition to appoint guardian advocate; authorizes agent acting for principal to grant supported decisionmaking agreement; prohibits such agreement from acting as durable power of attorney; provides certain communications shall be recognized as communication of principal; provides requirements for examining committee member when determining incapacitated person's ability to exercise his or her rights.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 73	Florida HB 73 (2024)	bill	domestic relations	enacted	2024-242	Koster Tant	2	38	2	2023-09-20	2024-06-17	openstates	ocd-bill/ba702f1c-0d45-4b0d-a453-cbd4b8984158	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/73/ByCategory	0a9e2245b565258e00a5617ab3b12cc3ff249be2549d4d39988735375535a2ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 73 (2024) — Supported Decisionmaking Authority

Supported Decisionmaking Authority; Requires court to consider needs & abilities of person with developmental disability when determining whether to appoint guardian advocate; provides requirements for petition to appoint guardian advocate; authorizes agent acting for principal to grant supported decisionmaking agreement; prohibits such agreement from acting as durable power of attorney; provides certain communications shall be recognized as communication of principal; provides requirements for examining committee member when determining incapacitated person's ability to exercise his or her rights.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-242.

Version chain

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

1. H 73 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 73 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Koster — primary (person)
• Tant — primary (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• Basabe — cosponsor (person)
• Canady — cosponsor (person)
• Cross — cosponsor (person)
• Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
• Gantt — cosponsor (person)
• Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• Keen — cosponsor (person)
• Killebrew — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• McClain — cosponsor (person)
• Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
• Persons-Mulicka — cosponsor (person)
• Roth — cosponsor (person)
• Skidmore — cosponsor (person)
• Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
• Tuck — cosponsor (person)
• Waldron — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-09-20 Filed filing
• 2023-10-05 Referred to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-10-05 Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-10-05 Referred to Health & Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2023-10-05 Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
• 2023-11-28 Added to Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-12-05 Favorable by Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-12-06 Reported out of Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
• 2023-12-06 Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-16 Added to Civil Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-18 Favorable by Civil Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-18 Reported out of Civil Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-18 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
• 2024-02-09 Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
• 2024-02-09 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-02-09 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 Passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-15 In Messages
• 2024-02-16 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2024-03-04 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-04 Substituted for SB 446
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-04 In Messages
• 2024-03-04 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-06-07 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-14 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-06-17 Chapter No. 2024-242

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ba702f1c-0d45-4b0d-a453-cbd4b8984158. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).