republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-818.md

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Bill	Military Leave	Military Leave; Providing that public officials and employees of the state, a county, a municipality, or a political subdivision, respectively, are entitled to their full pay for the first 30 days of military service, if such service is equal to or greater than a specified timeframe, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 818	Florida SB 818 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-19	Avila	2	29	5	2023-12-11	2024-03-22	openstates	ocd-bill/5f8f3c23-3847-44ee-94d1-6bedca24430f	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/818/ByCategory	7007f809f8322a64cb84f0ff084d02f933f846c1f9c48a3497919695a436855a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 818 (2024) — Military Leave

Military Leave; Providing that public officials and employees of the state, a county, a municipality, or a political subdivision, respectively, are entitled to their full pay for the first 30 days of military service, if such service is equal to or greater than a specified timeframe, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-19.

Version chain

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

1. S 818 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 818 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Avila — primary (person)
• Collins — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-11 Filed filing
• 2024-01-04 Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Community Affairs; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-11 On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 01/16/24, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building
• 2024-01-16 Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-16 Now in Community Affairs
• 2024-02-01 On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/06/24, 3:00 pm, 401 Senate Building
• 2024-02-06 Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-07 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2024-02-12 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/15/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-15 Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-16 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-26 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
• 2024-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-28 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 (Original Filed Version) filing, 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 Passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-06 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. 2024-19

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f8f3c23-3847-44ee-94d1-6bedca24430f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).