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Bill	Dorcas Fire District, Okaloosa County	Dorcas Fire District, Okaloosa County; Provides that district is dependent special district; removes provisions relating to district's status as independent special district; provides that Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners or its appointees shall serve as governing board; removes provisions relating to duties, election, terms, compensation, & meetings of district board of commissioners; removes requirement that resolution or ordinance adopted by board & approved by referendum only be repealed by referendum; authorizes district to assess ad valorem taxes & non-ad valorem assessments, & to impose & foreclose non-ad valorem assessment liens, as authorized by law; removes board's authority to enter into certain agreements; revises rate of assessment of non-ad valorem assessments; provides that expansion & merger of district shall be ratified by board.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 897	Florida HB 897 (2024)	bill	local bills	enacted	2024-288	Maney	2	38	2	2023-12-18	2024-07-02	openstates	ocd-bill/597ec5ce-14a1-471c-9e2b-8078267bf4f2	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/897/ByCategory	d91a6109d2a2ba811aa982a5c7cbc36fec571109be8aa1abf9cd53c2ac966be6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 897 (2024) — Dorcas Fire District, Okaloosa County

Dorcas Fire District, Okaloosa County; Provides that district is dependent special district; removes provisions relating to district's status as independent special district; provides that Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners or its appointees shall serve as governing board; removes provisions relating to duties, election, terms, compensation, & meetings of district board of commissioners; removes requirement that resolution or ordinance adopted by board & approved by referendum only be repealed by referendum; authorizes district to assess ad valorem taxes & non-ad valorem assessments, & to impose & foreclose non-ad valorem assessment liens, as authorized by law; removes board's authority to enter into certain agreements; revises rate of assessment of non-ad valorem assessments; provides that expansion & merger of district shall be ratified by board.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-288.

Version chain

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

1. H 897 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 897 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Local Bills — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 114–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maney — primary (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-18 Filed filing
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Ways & Means Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 Referred to State Affairs Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 Now in Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-17 Added to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-19 Favorable by Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-19 Reported out of Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
• 2024-01-19 Now in Ways & Means Committee
• 2024-01-29 Added to Ways & Means Committee agenda
• 2024-01-31 Favorable by Ways & Means Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-31 Reported out of Ways & Means Committee
• 2024-01-31 Now in State Affairs Committee
• 2024-02-05 Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
• 2024-02-07 Favorable by State Affairs Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-07 Reported out of State Affairs Committee
• 2024-02-07 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-02-07 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 114, NAYS 1 passage
• 2024-02-22 In Messages
• 2024-02-23 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-07 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2024-03-07 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-07 Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-07 In Messages
• 2024-03-07 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-06-07 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-13 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-07-02 Chapter No. 2024-288

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/597ec5ce-14a1-471c-9e2b-8078267bf4f2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).