republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-1286.md

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Bill	Return of Weapons and Arms Following an Arrest	Return of Weapons and Arms Following an Arrest; Requiring that weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms taken from a person pursuant to an arrest that are not either seized as evidence or seized and subject to forfeiture be returned to the person within a certain timeframe if specified conditions are met; authorizing a sheriff or chief of police to develop procedures to ensure the timely return of such weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms; deleting a requirement for an order of a trial court judge to return a pistol or firearm taken by an officer for a breach of the peace, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 1286	Florida SB 1286 (2024)	bill	(vetoed)	enacted	2024-61	Collins Criminal Justice	4	31	4	2024-01-04	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/b712fbc8-235f-4aae-ac32-75c0b08b5714	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1286/ByCategory	c73226c12e7c51ae0f04bdbc6ee2e1ed3fed365623af31d0f0fb8ef55c030882	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 1286 (2024) — Return of Weapons and Arms Following an Arrest

Return of Weapons and Arms Following an Arrest; Requiring that weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms taken from a person pursuant to an arrest that are not either seized as evidence or seized and subject to forfeiture be returned to the person within a certain timeframe if specified conditions are met; authorizing a sheriff or chief of police to develop procedures to ensure the timely return of such weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms; deleting a requirement for an order of a trial court judge to return a pistol or firearm taken by an officer for a breach of the peace, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-61.

Version chain

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

1. S 1286 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 1286 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 1286 e1 (engrossed) — source
4. S 1286 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 12–4 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 32–8 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 110–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Collins — primary (person)
• Criminal Justice — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Filed filing
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Introduced introduction
• 2024-02-01 On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/06/24, 11:30 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2024-02-06 CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 3
• 2024-02-08 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-08 Original reference(s) removed: Judiciary
• 2024-02-08 Remaining references corrected to Rules
• 2024-02-08 Now in Rules
• 2024-02-08 CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
• 2024-02-16 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/21/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-21 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 12 NAYS 4 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-21 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-26 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
• 2024-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Amendment(s) adopted (703346)
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 CS passed as amended; YEAS 32 NAYS 8 passage
• 2024-02-28 In Messages
• 2024-02-28 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-03-01 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
• 2024-03-01 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 CS passed; YEAS 110, NAYS 1 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-27 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Chapter No. 2024-61

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b712fbc8-235f-4aae-ac32-75c0b08b5714. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).