---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Motor Vehicles"
description: "Commercial Motor Vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 725"
citation: "Florida HB 725 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["motor vehicles", "banks and banking", "crimes"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-149"
primary_sponsors: ["Payne"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfc9ede5-abb7-4c30-a4e7-68e5ac2765e4"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/725/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8c269fe6fe280fb329626dba9e134afe9efdb504d7d93dfb9cc5dc95de518900"
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 725 (2019) — Commercial Motor Vehicles

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-149.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 725 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/725/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 725 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/725/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 725 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/725/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 725 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/725/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 725 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/725/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 725 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/725/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Message, Passage — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Affairs Committee) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Transportation & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee) — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Payne — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-20** Referred to Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee; Transportation and Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** On Committee agenda-- Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, 03/06/19, 3:00 pm, Reed Hall
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-06** CS by Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-08** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-03-11** Now in Transportation and Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2019-03-11** CS by Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2019-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Transportation and Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee, 03/19/19, 8:00 am, Reed Hall
- **2019-03-19** Favorable by Transportation and Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-19** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2019-03-26** On Committee agenda-- State Affairs Committee, 03/28/19, 10:30 am, Morris Hall
- **2019-03-28** CS/CS by- State Affairs Committee; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-29** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-03-29** CS/CS by State Affairs Committee read 1st time
- **2019-04-01** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-11** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/17/19
- **2019-04-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-17** Amendment(s) adopted (833291)
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-23** In Messages
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Infrastructure and Security; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Received
- **2019-05-02** Withdrawn from Infrastructure and Security; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2019-05-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-05-02** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1638
- **2019-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Amendment(s) adopted (375724)
- **2019-05-02** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-03** Motion to reconsider adopted
- **2019-05-03** Amendment(s) reconsidered, adopted as amended (156244)
- **2019-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-03** In returning messages
- **2019-05-03** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (156244) -HJ 1256, 1258
- **2019-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-03** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2019-06-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-27** Chapter No. 2019-149

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfc9ede5-abb7-4c30-a4e7-68e5ac2765e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).