---
type: "Bill"
title: "Animal Welfare"
description: "Animal Welfare"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1576"
citation: "Florida SB 1576 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["animals", "amusement games or machines", "sentencing"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2018-87"
primary_sponsors: ["Steube"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb2b1743-cd99-4ba9-8cf7-facf953e6d40"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/01576/ByCategory"
source_hash: "940727af7cad256ecb534de96374e50463177aad54473cc5a2d810745b5c950d"
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 1576 (2018) — Animal Welfare

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2018-87.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 1576 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/1576/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1576 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/1576/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1576 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/1576/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1576 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/1576/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **108–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Steube — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-04** Filed `filing`
- **2018-01-12** Referred to Agriculture; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-01-29** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 02/01/18, 11:30 am, 301 Senate Office Building
- **2018-02-01** CS by Agriculture; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2018-02-02** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2018-02-07** Remaining references corrected to Community Affairs; Criminal Justice; Rules
- **2018-02-07** Now in Community Affairs
- **2018-02-07** CS by Agriculture read 1st time
- **2018-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/13/18, 10:00 am, 301 Senate Office Building
- **2018-02-13** CS/CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2018-02-13** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2018-02-14** CS/CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2018-02-15** Original reference(s) removed: Criminal Justice
- **2018-02-15** Remaining references corrected to Rules
- **2018-02-15** Now in Rules
- **2018-03-06** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2018-03-06** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2018-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/08/18
- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-08** In Messages
- **2018-03-09** Received
- **2018-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 108 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Ordered enrolled
- **2018-03-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2018-03-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-26** Chapter No. 2018-87

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb2b1743-cd99-4ba9-8cf7-facf953e6d40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).