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Bill	Protection of Children and Victims of Crime	Protection of Children and Victims of Crime; Requiring the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office and circuit guardian ad litem offices to participate in the development of a certain state plan; requiring the court to appoint a guardian ad litem for a child at the earliest possible time; requiring parents to consent to provide certain information to the guardian ad litem and attorney ad litem; requiring a court to appoint a guardian ad litem to represent a child in certain proceedings, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 1224	Florida SB 1224 (2024)	bill	(vetoed) domestic relations social welfare	enacted	2024-70	Burton Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Fiscal Policy	7	40	6	2024-01-03	2024-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/3a714bcf-7620-46fa-b71a-60dfef7230cb	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1224/ByCategory	e2ac53a9be7f39b0e9323d776e8b1f6238830f837235d18acdd888fb31ef7c2e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 1224 (2024) — Protection of Children and Victims of Crime

Protection of Children and Victims of Crime; Requiring the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office and circuit guardian ad litem offices to participate in the development of a certain state plan; requiring the court to appoint a guardian ad litem for a child at the earliest possible time; requiring parents to consent to provide certain information to the guardian ad litem and attorney ad litem; requiring a court to appoint a guardian ad litem to represent a child in certain proceedings, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-70.

Version chain

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

1. S 1224 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 1224 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 1224 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 1224 c3 (committee substitute) — source
5. S 1224 e1 (engrossed) — source
6. S 1224 e2 (engrossed) — source
7. S 1224 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
• Burton — primary (person)
• Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)
• Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
• Grall — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-03 Filed filing
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-25 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/30/24, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
• 2024-01-30 CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-01 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-01 Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
• 2024-02-05 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/08/24, 2:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
• 2024-02-06 CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
• 2024-02-08 CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-12 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-12 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2024-02-13 CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
• 2024-02-19 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-22 CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-23 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-23 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-27 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
• 2024-02-27 CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
• 2024-02-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Amendment(s) adopted (557258)
• 2024-02-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-29 CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-29 In Messages
• 2024-03-04 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-03-04 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024)
• 2024-03-04 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-05 Amendment 114061 adopted
• 2024-03-05 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-06 In returning messages
• 2024-03-06 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (114061)
• 2024-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-06 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-08 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-10 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-11 Chapter No. 2024-70

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a714bcf-7620-46fa-b71a-60dfef7230cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).