Florida legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Florida H1371: Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel
Status: Chaptered, June 24, 2025
Authorizes first responder amputees to continue to serve as first responders; creates Florida Medal of Valor & Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal; prohibits use of motor vehicle kill switches; requires mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for attempted murder in first degree committed against specified justice system personnel; prohibits depriving specified officers of digital recording devices or restraint devices, rendering them useless, or otherwise preventing officer from defending himself or herself or summoning assistance; revises requirements for reporting of missing persons information; creates Critical Infrastructure Mapping Grant Program within FDLE; specifies requirements for testing inmates for infectious diseases.
Sponsors
- Judiciary Committee · primary sponsor
- House Budget Committee · primary sponsor
- Criminal Justice Subcommittee · primary sponsor
- Nix, Danny (R, HD-075) · primary sponsor
- Alvarez, Danny (R, HD-069) · primary sponsor
- Shane Abbott (R, HD-005)
- Alvarez, Jose (D, HD-046)
- Anderson, Adam (R, HD-057)
- Booth, Erika (R, HD-035)
- Fabricio, Tom (R, HD-110)
- Owen, Michael (R, HD-070)
- Rizo, Alex (R, HD-112)
Votes
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#30 (April 29, 2025): 37 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Third Reading RCS#257 (April 25, 2025): 111 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House Judiciary Committee (April 17, 2025): 20 yea, 0 nay, passed