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type: "Bill"
title: "Exposures of First Responders to Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 718"
citation: "Florida SB 718 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-68"
primary_sponsors: ["Collins", "Criminal Justice", "Fiscal Policy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-12-06"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7732134-837e-4d08-9630-70283dff7cf8"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/718/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d2429c471d9358a674dfdb76abba5edf46d33894affe44ce7907e7aa1c7f156b"
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 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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/718/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 718 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/718/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 718 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/718/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 718 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/718/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 718 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/718/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **180** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **71** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **90** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **300** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **10012** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7732134-837e-4d08-9630-70283dff7cf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).