republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/hb-937.md

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Bill	Purple Alert	Purple Alert; Requires local law enforcement agencies to develop policies for local activation of Purple Alert for certain missing adults; specifies requirements; specifies duties of FDLE's Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse in event of state Purple Alert; specifies conditions under which local law enforcement agency may request clearinghouse to open case.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 937	Florida HB 937 (2024)	bill	(vetoed)	enacted	2024-82	Casello Keen	2	42	2	2023-12-19	2024-04-12	openstates	ocd-bill/ac762da5-355c-48f6-90d1-40f47554df8f	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/937/ByCategory	03ca6cb0685c811eef347b0af866ddbb18f91c23e0588559e3c6a6f976498c1b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 937 (2024) — Purple Alert

Purple Alert; Requires local law enforcement agencies to develop policies for local activation of Purple Alert for certain missing adults; specifies requirements; specifies duties of FDLE's Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse in event of state Purple Alert; specifies conditions under which local law enforcement agency may request clearinghouse to open case.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-82.

Version chain

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

1. H 937 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 937 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 110–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 31–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Casello — primary (person)
• Keen — primary (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• Daniels — cosponsor (person)
• Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Mooney — cosponsor (person)
• Skidmore — cosponsor (person)
• Truenow — cosponsor (person)
• Valdés — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-19 Filed filing
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-17 Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2024-01-19 Favorable by Criminal Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-19 Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2024-01-19 Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
• 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
• 2024-01-26 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2024-01-30 Favorable by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-30 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2024-01-30 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2024-01-30 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
• 2024-02-21 Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
• 2024-02-21 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-22 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/27/2024)
• 2024-02-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed; YEAS 110, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-28 In Messages
• 2024-02-28 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-01 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2024-03-01 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-01 Substituted for CS/SB 640
• 2024-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Passed; YEAS 31 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-01 In Messages
• 2024-03-01 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-02 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-11 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-12 Chapter No. 2024-82

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac762da5-355c-48f6-90d1-40f47554df8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).