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

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Aggravated Animal Cruelty"
+description: "Aggravated Animal Cruelty; Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website the names of certain individuals who have violated specified animal cruelty provisions; provides a sentencing multiplier for specified offenses of aggravated animal cruelty."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 255"
+citation: "Florida HB 255 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["crimes", "criminal procedure and corrections"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2025-102"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chaney", "Weinberger"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-27"
+last_action: "2025-05-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b99a2dde-c2b1-477a-a032-5b5e083d7a5f"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "c4e48b56a2bd2dbcca64a5276e2bff03fbe23115271b77669b7a23198ae8e9ad"
+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 HB 255 (2025) — Aggravated Animal Cruelty
+
+Aggravated Animal Cruelty; Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website the names of certain individuals who have violated specified animal cruelty provisions; provides a sentencing multiplier for specified offenses of aggravated animal cruelty.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-102.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **H 255 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/BillText/Filed/PDF)
+2. **H 255 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/BillText/c1/PDF)
+3. **H 255 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/BillText/e1/PDF)
+4. **H 255 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/BillText/er/PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **112–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chaney — primary (person)
+- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
+- Weinberger — primary (person)
+- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
+- Benarroch — cosponsor (person)
+- Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
+- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael — cosponsor (person)
+- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
+- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
+- Porras — cosponsor (person)
+- Redondo — cosponsor (person)
+- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
+- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-27** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-02-06** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-06** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-06** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
+- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
+- **2025-03-10** PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
+- **2025-03-12** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-12** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
+- **2025-03-13** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
+- **2025-03-13** CS Filed `filing`
+- **2025-03-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-14** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** Now in Judiciary Committee
+- **2025-03-24** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
+- **2025-03-26** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-26** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
+- **2025-03-26** Bill released to House Calendar
+- **2025-03-26** Added to Second Reading Calendar
+- **2025-04-03** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/9/2025)
+- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-09** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** CS passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2025-04-10** In Messages
+- **2025-04-10** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-14** Received `enrolled`
+- **2025-04-29** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
+- **2025-04-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-29** Substituted for CS/SB 494
+- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-29** Amendment(s) adopted (687730)
+- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2025-04-29** In Messages
+- **2025-05-01** Senate Message List
+- **2025-05-01** Amendment 687730 Concur
+- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2025-05-01** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-28** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-29** Chapter No. 2025-102
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b99a2dde-c2b1-477a-a032-5b5e083d7a5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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