---
type: "Bill"
title: "Catalytic Converters"
description: "Catalytic Converters; Designating the “Catalytic Converter Antitheft Act”; prohibiting a person from knowingly purchasing a detached catalytic converter unless he or she is a registered secondary metals recycler; prohibiting a person from knowingly importing, manufacturing, purchasing for a certain purpose, selling, offering for sale, or installing or reinstalling a counterfeit, fake, or nonfunctional catalytic converter; prohibiting a secondary metals recycler from processing or removing a detached catalytic converter from the recycler’s place of business for a specified number of days, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 306"
citation: "Florida SB 306 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations", "crimes"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-114"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd", "Criminal Justice"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7476e303-aafb-470d-a481-78a981999e38"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/ByCategory"
source_hash: "11842a0548e076d768234f631d2db4c4df712ee4258a5aa964d5ad0a3eca7d9f"
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 306 (2023) — Catalytic Converters

Catalytic Converters; Designating the “Catalytic Converter Antitheft Act”; prohibiting a person from knowingly purchasing a detached catalytic converter unless he or she is a registered secondary metals recycler; prohibiting a person from knowingly importing, manufacturing, purchasing for a certain purpose, selling, offering for sale, or installing or reinstalling a counterfeit, fake, or nonfunctional catalytic converter; prohibiting a secondary metals recycler from processing or removing a detached catalytic converter from the recycler’s place of business for a specified number of days, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-114.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 306 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 306 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 306 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 306 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **105–2** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Boyd — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice — primary (person)
- Hooper — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Filed `filing`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/14/23, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-02-14** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2023-02-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-02-16** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-07** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2023-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/14/23, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-14** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-16** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-16** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-03-21** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- **2023-03-23** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/28/23, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-28** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-03-30** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/04/23
- **2023-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-04** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-04** Immediately certified
- **2023-04-05** In Messages
- **2023-04-13** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-13** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/18/2023)
- **2023-04-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-18** Substituted for CS/HB 185
- **2023-04-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-18** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** CS passed; YEAS 105, NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-25** Chapter No. 2023-114

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7476e303-aafb-470d-a481-78a981999e38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).