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Bill	Exposures of First Responders to Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs	Exposures of First Responders to Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs; Providing criminal penalties for adults who, in the course of unlawfully possessing specified controlled substances, recklessly expose a first responder to such substances and an overdose or serious bodily injury of the first responder results; prohibiting the arrest, charging, prosecution, or penalizing under specified provisions of law of a person acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for an individual experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an alcohol-related or a drug-related overdose, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 718	Florida SB 718 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-68	Collins Criminal Justice Fiscal Policy	5	35	5	2023-12-06	2024-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/e7732134-837e-4d08-9630-70283dff7cf8	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/718/ByCategory	d2429c471d9358a674dfdb76abba5edf46d33894affe44ce7907e7aa1c7f156b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 718 (2024) — Exposures of First Responders to Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs

Exposures of First Responders to Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs; Providing criminal penalties for adults who, in the course of unlawfully possessing specified controlled substances, recklessly expose a first responder to such substances and an overdose or serious bodily injury of the first responder results; prohibiting the arrest, charging, prosecution, or penalizing under specified provisions of law of a person acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for an individual experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an alcohol-related or a drug-related overdose, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-68.

Version chain

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

1. S 718 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 718 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 718 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 718 c3 (committee substitute) — source
5. S 718 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 100–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
• Collins — primary (person)
• Criminal Justice — primary (person)
• Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
• Hooper — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-06 Filed filing
• 2023-12-15 Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-18 On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/23/24, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
• 2024-01-23 CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 1
• 2024-01-24 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-01-24 CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
• 2024-01-25 Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
• 2024-02-08 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/13/24, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2024-02-13 CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-15 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-15 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2024-02-20 CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
• 2024-02-22 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/27/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-27 CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-28 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-28 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-28 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/24
• 2024-02-28 CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
• 2024-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 CS passed; YEAS 30 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-01 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 (Committee Substitute 3) reading-1
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 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; YEAS 100, NAYS 12 passage
• 2024-03-06 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-04 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-09 Chapter No. 2024-68

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7732134-837e-4d08-9630-70283dff7cf8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).