---
type: "Bill"
title: "Racketeering"
description: "Racketeering; Revising the definition of the term “racketeering activity” to include certain actions relating to wild animal life, freshwater aquatic life, or marine life, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 776"
citation: "Florida SB 776 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-55"
primary_sponsors: ["Gainer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-25"
last_action: "2021-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9575dc59-4290-4f04-803b-096c69b0ea4b"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/776/ByCategory"
source_hash: "01061ecd799b9b57177e03ecfb54f8a9a8538266f54f77c0c34a8645a87f4dbb"
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 776 (2021) — Racketeering

Racketeering; Revising the definition of the term “racketeering activity” to include certain actions relating to wild animal life, freshwater aquatic life, or marine life, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-55.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 776 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/776/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 776 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/776/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 776 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/776/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 776 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/776/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gainer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Criminal Justice; Environment and Natural Resources; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/16/21, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-02-16** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-02-18** Now in Environment and Natural Resources
- **2021-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/02/21, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-02** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2021-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/18/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-18** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/25/21
- **2021-03-25** Retained on Special Order Calendar
- **2021-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-01** Amendment(s) adopted (594970, 931580)
- **2021-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-01** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-26** Amendment 400055 filed
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Amendment 400055 withdrawn
- **2021-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-04** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Chapter No. 2021-55

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9575dc59-4290-4f04-803b-096c69b0ea4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).