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CS/SB 524: Department of Law Enforcement

GENERAL BILL by Fiscal Policy ; Simon

Department of Law Enforcement; Authorizing the Department of Law Enforcement to adopt rules relating to the Florida Medal of Valor and the Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal; authorizing eye banks, organ procurement organizations, and tissue banks, in order to facilitate anatomical gifts or transplantations, to view or copy specified autopsy reports under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to accept and process fingerprints taken of natural persons who are control persons of a licensee or are applicants for licensure; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement’s Criminal Justice Information Program to collect, process, store, maintain, and disseminate immigration detainer information, etc.

Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act and except for this section, which shall take effect upon this act becoming a law, this act shall take effect July 1, 2026
 Last Action: 2/26/2026 Senate - Retained on Special Order Calendar
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Criminal Justice (CJ)
  2. Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (ACJ)
  3. Fiscal Policy (FP)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
11/17/2025 Senate • Filed
12/1/2025 Senate • Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
1/5/2026 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/12/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
1/12/2026 Senate • Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
1/13/2026 Senate • Introduced
1/16/2026 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 01/21/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
1/21/2026 Senate • Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• Now in Fiscal Policy
2/2/2026 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/05/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
2/19/2026 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/24/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
2/24/2026 Senate • CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
• Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
2/25/2026 Senate • Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
2/26/2026 Senate • Retained on Special Order Calendar