---
type: "Bill"
title: "Driver License, Identification Card, and Motor Vehicle Registration"
description: "Driver License, Identification Card, and Motor Vehicle Registration; Revising the parties that may receive confidential crash reports to include law enforcement agencies and their contracted service providers; requires that motor vehicle registration form and registration renewal form and driver license or ID card application form, respectively, include option to make voluntary contribution to Best Buddies International; defining the terms \"control\" and \"motor vehicle dealer's leasing or rental affiliate\", etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 965"
citation: "Florida HB 965 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["motor vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-186"
primary_sponsors: ["Arrington", "Gottlieb"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 46
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-21"
last_action: "2023-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba6273b2-aeea-4876-b74d-ac8d43fd80dd"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/965/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3f6bc07d1c4b7d5f74fab1595a59d78838275ce997b4f7a8a84e2a7871ff7bc4"
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 965 (2023) — Driver License, Identification Card, and Motor Vehicle Registration

Driver License, Identification Card, and Motor Vehicle Registration; Revising the parties that may receive confidential crash reports to include law enforcement agencies and their contracted service providers; requires that motor vehicle registration form and registration renewal form and driver license or ID card application form, respectively, include option to make voluntary contribution to Best Buddies International; defining the terms "control" and "motor vehicle dealer's leasing or rental affiliate", etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-186.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 965 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/965/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 965 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/965/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 965 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/965/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 965 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/965/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Infrastructure Strategies Committee) — **23–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Transportation & Modals Subcommittee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arrington — primary (person)
- Gottlieb — primary (person)
- Infrastructure Strategies Committee — primary (organization)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
- Bracy Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Daley — cosponsor (person)
- Daniels — cosponsor (person)
- Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- LaMarca — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Nixon — cosponsor (person)
- Skidmore — cosponsor (person)
- Stark — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-21** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to Transportation & Modals Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Now in Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-08** Added to Transportation & Modals Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-10** Favorable by Transportation & Modals Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-10** Reported out of Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
- **2023-03-10** Now in Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-03-17** Added to Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-21** Favorable by Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-21** Reported out of Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-03-21** Now in Infrastructure Strategies Committee
- **2023-03-23** Added to Infrastructure Strategies Committee agenda
- **2023-03-27** Favorable with CS by Infrastructure Strategies Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-28** Reported out of Infrastructure Strategies Committee
- **2023-03-28** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-03-28** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-03-29** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-13** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2023)
- **2023-04-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-20** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-20** In Messages
- **2023-04-21** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-03** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-03** Substituted for CS/SB 996
- **2023-05-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-03** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Amendment(s) adopted (834476)
- **2023-05-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** In Messages
- **2023-05-04** Added to Senate Message List
- **2023-05-04** Amendment 834476 Concur
- **2023-05-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Chapter No. 2023-186

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba6273b2-aeea-4876-b74d-ac8d43fd80dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).