---
type: "Bill"
title: "Offenses Involving Critical Infrastructure"
description: "Offenses Involving Critical Infrastructure; Provides criminal penalties for improperly tampering with critical infrastructure resulting in specified monetary damage or cost to restore; provides for civil liability upon conviction for such violations; provides criminal penalties for trespass upon critical infrastructure; provides notice requirements; provides criminal penalties for unauthorized access to or tampering with specified electronic devices or networks of critical infrastructure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 275"
citation: "Florida HB 275 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-197"
primary_sponsors: ["Canady"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 50
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-10-25"
last_action: "2024-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7fec61f-01ea-4294-a155-e0802f874dfa"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/275/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e2e4af6b7a8e71e4d7927c9fe2433628a3d132877325866e100cc56f758eb8dc"
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 275 (2024) — Offenses Involving Critical Infrastructure

Offenses Involving Critical Infrastructure; Provides criminal penalties for improperly tampering with critical infrastructure resulting in specified monetary damage or cost to restore; provides for civil liability upon conviction for such violations; provides criminal penalties for trespass upon critical infrastructure; provides notice requirements; provides criminal penalties for unauthorized access to or tampering with specified electronic devices or networks of critical infrastructure.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-197.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 275 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/275/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 275 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/275/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 275 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/275/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 275 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/275/BillText/c3/PDF)
5. **H 275 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/275/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **110–5** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Canady — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Botana — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Stark — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-25** Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-02** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-02** Referred to Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-02** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-02** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-17** PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-19** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-19** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2024-01-19** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-19** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-22** Referred to Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** Now in Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
- **2024-01-22** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-26** Added to Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-30** Favorable with CS by Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** Reported out of Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
- **2024-01-30** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-30** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-31** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-31** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2024-02-12** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2024-02-14** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-14** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2024-02-14** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-14** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-15** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
- **2024-02-15** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** CS passed; YEAS 110, NAYS 5 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** In Messages
- **2024-02-23** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-02-28** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2024-02-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-28** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 340
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** In Messages
- **2024-02-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-17** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-20** Chapter No. 2024-197

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7fec61f-01ea-4294-a155-e0802f874dfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).