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Bill	Retention of Sexual Offense Evidence	Retention of Sexual Offense Evidence; Requiring that specified sexual offense evidence be retained by specified entities for a minimum number of years after the collection date; requiring that such evidence be stored anonymously in a secure, environmentally safe manner, and with a documented chain of custody; providing requirements for the transferring, storing, and destruction of such sexual offense evidence, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 764	Florida SB 764 (2024)	bill	(vetoed)	enacted	2024-169	Criminal Justice Fiscal Policy Stewart	6	36	5	2023-12-06	2024-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/eb3ca215-2e63-484f-8436-6ff048ae0b80	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/764/ByCategory	c38468c886197181004a3c8a18377af13901d96aba984eb6a0f2fa7bb961c7b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 764 (2024) — Retention of Sexual Offense Evidence

Retention of Sexual Offense Evidence; Requiring that specified sexual offense evidence be retained by specified entities for a minimum number of years after the collection date; requiring that such evidence be stored anonymously in a secure, environmentally safe manner, and with a documented chain of custody; providing requirements for the transferring, storing, and destruction of such sexual offense evidence, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-169.

Version chain

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

1. S 764 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 764 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 764 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 764 c3 (committee substitute) — source
5. S 764 e1 (engrossed) — source
6. S 764 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 112–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
• Criminal Justice — primary (person)
• Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
• Stewart — primary (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
• 2024-01-05 On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/10/24, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-10 CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• 2024-01-11 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-01-11 CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
• 2024-01-12 Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
• 2024-02-05 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/08/24, 2:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
• 2024-02-08 CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-12 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-12 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2024-02-13 CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
• 2024-02-19 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-22 CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-23 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-23 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-26 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
• 2024-02-27 CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
• 2024-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Amendment(s) adopted (408362)
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 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 112, NAYS 1 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-25 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-10 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-13 Chapter No. 2024-169

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb3ca215-2e63-484f-8436-6ff048ae0b80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).