republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-474.md

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Bill	Public Records/Suicide Victims	Public Records/Suicide Victims; Defining the term “suicide of a person”; creating an exemption from public records requirements for a photograph or video or audio recording of the suicide of a person; providing exceptions; requiring that any viewing, copying, listening to, or other handling of such photograph or video or audio recording be under the direct supervision of the custodian of the record or his or her designee; creating an exemption from public records requirements for autopsy reports of suicide victims; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 474	Florida SB 474 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-18	Governmental Oversight and Accountability Grall	3	32	5	2023-11-15	2024-03-22	openstates	ocd-bill/ac241a7c-87dd-459b-b92f-a407ba24122a	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/474/ByCategory	b203151749a3dbe08b3201228fe0cc15c463728cbe851ab95ba0d0dc53d34c9d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 474 (2024) — Public Records/Suicide Victims

Public Records/Suicide Victims; Defining the term “suicide of a person”; creating an exemption from public records requirements for a photograph or video or audio recording of the suicide of a person; providing exceptions; requiring that any viewing, copying, listening to, or other handling of such photograph or video or audio recording be under the direct supervision of the custodian of the record or his or her designee; creating an exemption from public records requirements for autopsy reports of suicide victims; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-18.

Version chain

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

1. S 474 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 474 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 474 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (person)
• Grall — primary (person)
• Book — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-15 Filed filing
• 2023-11-28 Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules referral-committee
• 2023-12-04 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 12/13/23, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2023-12-13 Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-12-14 Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-11 On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/16/24, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2024-01-16 CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
• 2024-01-17 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-01-17 CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
• 2024-01-18 Now in Rules
• 2024-01-25 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/30/24, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-01-30 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-31 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-08 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/14/24
• 2024-02-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-14 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-14 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-14 Immediately certified
• 2024-02-14 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 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 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-19 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-03-22 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-22 Chapter No. 2024-18

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac241a7c-87dd-459b-b92f-a407ba24122a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).