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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 242: Public Records and Public Meetings/Helping Abuse Victims Escape Now (HAVEN) Coordinating Council

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

SB 242 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on January 14, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Public Records and Public Meetings/Helping Abuse Victims Escape Now (HAVEN) Coordinating Council. Primary sponsor: Lori Berman (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Criminal Justice.

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.

Public Records and Public Meetings/Helping Abuse Victims Escape Now (HAVEN) Coordinating Council; Specifying that information obtained by the Helping Abuse Victims Escape Now (HAVEN) Coordinating Council which is exempt or confidential and exempt from public records requirements retains its protected status; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of the coordinating council’s meetings during which exempt or confidential and exempt information is discussed; providing statements of public necessity, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lori BermanPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate26

“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 Criminal Justice
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Introduced
  4. Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
  5. Filed

Sources

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