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Bill	Taking of Bears	Taking of Bears; Providing for the taking of bears without certain penalties under specified conditions; requiring the disposal of such bears by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; prohibiting certain possession, sale, and disposal of such bears or their parts; etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 87	Florida HB 87 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-256	Shoaf	4	46	3	2023-09-28	2024-06-24	openstates	ocd-bill/32cda031-b2b0-4ebf-9a49-6768a05ad396	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/87/ByCategory	36121bd753a4078cb301ba40dab65c77dab50cb04bb27ace29fb014dcc24e030	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 87 (2024) — Taking of Bears

Taking of Bears; Providing for the taking of bears without certain penalties under specified conditions; requiring the disposal of such bears by the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; prohibiting certain possession, sale, and disposal of such bears or their parts; etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-256.

Version chain

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

1. H 87 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 87 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 87 e1 (engrossed) — source
4. H 87 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 88–29 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 83–28 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 24–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Infrastructure Strategies Committee — primary (organization)
• Shoaf — primary (person)
• Andrade — cosponsor (person)
• Black — cosponsor (person)
• Daniels — cosponsor (person)
• Maggard — cosponsor (person)
• McClain — cosponsor (person)
• Rizo — cosponsor (person)
• Rudman — cosponsor (person)
• Salzman — cosponsor (person)
• Tant — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-09-28 Filed filing
• 2023-10-17 Referred to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-10-17 Referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-10-17 Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee referral-committee
• 2023-10-17 Now in Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
• 2023-12-05 Added to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-12-12 Favorable by Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-12-12 Reported out of Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
• 2023-12-12 Now in Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-17 Added to Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-19 Favorable by Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-19 Reported out of Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
• 2024-01-19 Now in Infrastructure Strategies Committee
• 2024-01-26 Added to Infrastructure Strategies Committee agenda
• 2024-01-30 Favorable with CS by Infrastructure Strategies Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-30 Reported out of Infrastructure Strategies Committee
• 2024-01-30 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-30 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-31 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-31 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-01-31 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 88, NAYS 29 passage
• 2024-02-15 In Messages
• 2024-02-16 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Received enrolled
• 2024-02-21 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2024-02-21 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-21 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 632
• 2024-02-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Amendment(s) adopted (542244)
• 2024-02-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 CS passed as amended; YEAS 24 NAYS 12 passage
• 2024-02-21 Immediately certified
• 2024-02-21 In Messages
• 2024-03-07 Added to Senate Message List
• 2024-03-07 Amendment 542244 Concur
• 2024-03-07 CS passed as amended; YEAS 83, NAYS 28 passage
• 2024-03-07 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2024-06-07 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-21 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-06-24 Chapter No. 2024-256

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/32cda031-b2b0-4ebf-9a49-6768a05ad396. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).