Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Catalytic Converters"
+description: "Catalytic Converters; Designating the “Catalytic Converter Antitheft Act”; prohibiting a person from knowingly purchasing a detached catalytic converter unless he or she is a registered secondary metals recycler; prohibiting a person from knowingly importing, manufacturing, purchasing for a certain purpose, selling, offering for sale, or installing or reinstalling a counterfeit, fake, or nonfunctional catalytic converter; prohibiting a secondary metals recycler from processing or removing a detached catalytic converter from the recycler’s place of business for a specified number of days, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 306"
+citation: "Florida SB 306 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["and solicitations", "crimes"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2023-114"
+primary_sponsors: ["Boyd", "Criminal Justice"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-19"
+last_action: "2023-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7476e303-aafb-470d-a481-78a981999e38"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "11842a0548e076d768234f631d2db4c4df712ee4258a5aa964d5ad0a3eca7d9f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
+---
+
+# Florida SB 306 (2023) — Catalytic Converters
+
+Catalytic Converters; Designating the “Catalytic Converter Antitheft Act”; prohibiting a person from knowingly purchasing a detached catalytic converter unless he or she is a registered secondary metals recycler; prohibiting a person from knowingly importing, manufacturing, purchasing for a certain purpose, selling, offering for sale, or installing or reinstalling a counterfeit, fake, or nonfunctional catalytic converter; prohibiting a secondary metals recycler from processing or removing a detached catalytic converter from the recycler’s place of business for a specified number of days, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-114.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 306 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 306 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/BillText/c1/HTML)
+3. **S 306 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/BillText/c2/HTML)
+4. **S 306 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage, Third Reading — **105–2** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
+- Boyd — primary (person)
+- Criminal Justice — primary (person)
+- Hooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-19** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-01-26** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/14/23, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
+- **2023-02-14** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
+- **2023-02-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2023-02-16** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
+- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2023-03-07** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
+- **2023-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/14/23, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
+- **2023-03-14** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
+- **2023-03-16** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2023-03-16** Now in Fiscal Policy
+- **2023-03-21** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
+- **2023-03-23** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/28/23, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
+- **2023-03-28** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2023-03-30** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/04/23
+- **2023-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-04** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2023-04-04** Immediately certified
+- **2023-04-05** In Messages
+- **2023-04-13** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2023-04-13** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/18/2023)
+- **2023-04-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-18** Substituted for CS/HB 185
+- **2023-04-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-18** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-18** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2023-04-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-19** CS passed; YEAS 105, NAYS 2 `passage`
+- **2023-04-19** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-25** Chapter No. 2023-114
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7476e303-aafb-470d-a481-78a981999e38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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