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Bill	Sheriffs in Consolidated Governments	Sheriffs in Consolidated Governments; Authorizing sheriffs in a consolidated government, as well as all other sheriffs, to transfer funds after their budgets are approved by the board of county commissioners, city council, or budget commission, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 1704	Florida SB 1704 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-120	Community Affairs Rules Yarborough	4	32	4	2024-01-05	2024-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/c15cbbba-7c25-461a-a7d0-b88206c0b474	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1704/ByCategory	7eac63b66efc335269f3aec651aaaa0dc86d64e0c5929747e49c53f3c51395d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 1704 (2024) — Sheriffs in Consolidated Governments

Sheriffs in Consolidated Governments; Authorizing sheriffs in a consolidated government, as well as all other sheriffs, to transfer funds after their budgets are approved by the board of county commissioners, city council, or budget commission, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-120.

Version chain

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

1. S 1704 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 1704 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 1704 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 1704 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 25–12 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 86–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Community Affairs — primary (person)
• Rules — primary (person)
• Yarborough — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Filed filing
• 2024-01-11 Referred to Community Affairs; Criminal Justice; Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-24 On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/29/24, 1:30 pm, 401 Senate Building
• 2024-01-29 CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
• 2024-01-31 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-01-31 Original reference(s) removed: Criminal Justice
• 2024-01-31 Remaining references corrected to Rules
• 2024-01-31 Now in Rules
• 2024-02-01 CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
• 2024-02-09 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/14/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-14 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-15 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-20 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2024-02-27 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
• 2024-02-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-29 CS passed; YEAS 25 NAYS 12 passage
• 2024-02-29 In Messages
• 2024-03-01 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-03-01 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
• 2024-03-01 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) 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 86, NAYS 23 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-26 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-29 Chapter No. 2024-120

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c15cbbba-7c25-461a-a7d0-b88206c0b474. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).