Cold Case Murders
- Introduced Feb 13, 2025
- In committee Feb 25, 2025
- Passed the Senate
- Passed the House
- To the governor
- Became law Jul 1, 2026
What it does
The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.
Citing this act as "The Decker Act"; requiring the heads of law enforcement agencies or their designees to review certain cold cases and make a specified determination upon receiving a written application from a designated person; requiring law enforcement agencies to conduct a full reinvestigation of a cold case under certain circumstances; requiring law enforcement agencies to provide specified training; requiring…
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Citing this act as "The Decker Act"; requiring the heads of law enforcement agencies or their designees to review certain cold cases and make a specified determination upon receiving a written application from a designated person; requiring law enforcement agencies to conduct a full reinvestigation of a cold case under certain circumstances; requiring law enforcement agencies to provide specified training; requiring law enforcement agencies, by a specified date and periodically thereafter, to report certain data to the Global Forensic and Justice Center at Florida International University, etc.
Every action
5 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
- SenateFiled
- CommitteeReferred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy · Senate Criminal Justice
- SenateIntroduced
- SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
- CommitteeDied in Criminal Justice · Senate Criminal Justice
Roll calls
No recorded votes on this bill yet.
Sponsors
The member who introduced it.
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Rosalind OsgoodD Primary sponsor · District 32
From Florida's official records (leg.state.fl.us; flhouse.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.