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type: "Bill"
title: "Protection of Children and Victims of Crime"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1224"
citation: "Florida SB 1224 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)", "domestic relations", "social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-70"
primary_sponsors: ["Burton", "Children, Families, and Elder Affairs", "Fiscal Policy"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-03"
last_action: "2024-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a714bcf-7620-46fa-b71a-60dfef7230cb"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1224/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e2ac53a9be7f39b0e9323d776e8b1f6238830f837235d18acdd888fb31ef7c2e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1224/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1224 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1224/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1224 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1224/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1224 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1224/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 1224 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1224/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 1224 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1224/BillText/e2/HTML)
7. **S 1224 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1224/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **170** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **90** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **360** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **70** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1120** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a714bcf-7620-46fa-b71a-60dfef7230cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).