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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 243: Withholding Funds from the Return of Cash Bonds

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 243 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on January 24, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Withholding Funds from the Return of Cash Bonds. Primary sponsor: Alex Andrade (Republican). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Justice Budget Subcommittee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Withholding Funds from the Return of Cash Bonds; Requires clerk of court to withhold funds from return of cash bond posted by criminal defendant or his or her spouse, rather than to withhold from return of cash bond posted on behalf of criminal defendant by person other than bail bond agent, funds for specified purposes; requires all cash bond forms to display specified notice.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Alex AndradePrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse2

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Justice Budget Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  4. Now in Justice Budget Subcommittee
  5. Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
  6. Favorable by Criminal Justice Subcommittee
  7. Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
  8. Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
  9. Referred to Judiciary Committee
  10. Referred to Justice Budget Subcommittee
  11. Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
  12. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source