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FL HB 1459

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Serving as Personal Representative After a Felony Conviction

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Serving as Personal Representative After a Felony Conviction; Creates exception to allow person convicted of felony who is not currently incarcerated to serve as personal representative if they have specified relationship to deceased; requires court to consider certain criteria when determining if such person may serve as personal representative.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-03-13 — Died in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Ganttprimary

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-09

    Filed

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  2. 2026-01-13

    1st Reading (Original Filed Version)

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  3. 2026-01-15

    Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee

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  4. 2026-01-15

    Referred to Judiciary Committee

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  5. 2026-01-15

    Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee

  6. 2026-03-13

    Died in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee

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Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

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Official source

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1459/ByCategory

Attribution

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