---
type: "Bill"
title: "Boating Safety"
description: "Boating Safety; Citing this act as the \"Boating Safety Act of 2022\"; authorizing a court to impose a specified fine for certain boating collisions and accidents; requiring certain boating safety education courses and temporary certificate examinations to include specified components; requiring operators of vessels used in the instruction of water sports and activities to use engine cutoff switches and wear operative links to the switches under certain conditions; prohibiting liveries from offering a vessel for lease or rent without a livery permit, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 606"
citation: "Florida SB 606 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["vessels"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-197"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Garcia"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-10-25"
last_action: "2022-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d4a3a22-acdb-4b11-a14d-24de15033014"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/606/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0b8a9acf6092805bd59cb19c5d5f45c41a87caaab3da03d8706470592b2506d3"
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 606 (2022) — Boating Safety

Boating Safety; Citing this act as the "Boating Safety Act of 2022"; authorizing a court to impose a specified fine for certain boating collisions and accidents; requiring certain boating safety education courses and temporary certificate examinations to include specified components; requiring operators of vessels used in the instruction of water sports and activities to use engine cutoff switches and wear operative links to the switches under certain conditions; prohibiting liveries from offering a vessel for lease or rent without a livery permit, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-197.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 606 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/606/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 606 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/606/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 606 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/606/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 606 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/606/BillText/e2/HTML)
5. **S 606 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/606/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–1** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **36–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Garcia — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-25** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-03** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 11/30/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-11-30** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-30** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 01/26/22, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-26** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-28** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/09/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2022-02-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/21/22, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-21** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-23** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-23** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-02-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Amendment(s) adopted (472652)
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** In Messages
- **2022-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2022)
- **2022-03-01** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/HB 493
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Amendment 981283 adopted
- **2022-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** In returning messages
- **2022-03-08** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (981283)
- **2022-03-08** CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2022-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-21** Chapter No. 2022-197

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d4a3a22-acdb-4b11-a14d-24de15033014`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).