---
type: "Bill"
title: "Aggravated Animal Cruelty"
description: "Aggravated Animal Cruelty; Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website the names of certain individuals who have violated specified animal cruelty provisions; provides a sentencing multiplier for specified offenses of aggravated animal cruelty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 255"
citation: "Florida HB 255 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes", "criminal procedure and corrections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-102"
primary_sponsors: ["Chaney", "Weinberger"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b99a2dde-c2b1-477a-a032-5b5e083d7a5f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c4e48b56a2bd2dbcca64a5276e2bff03fbe23115271b77669b7a23198ae8e9ad"
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 255 (2025) — Aggravated Animal Cruelty

Aggravated Animal Cruelty; Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website the names of certain individuals who have violated specified animal cruelty provisions; provides a sentencing multiplier for specified offenses of aggravated animal cruelty.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-102.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 255 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 255 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 255 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 255 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/255/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chaney — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Weinberger — primary (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Benarroch — cosponsor (person)
- Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Porras — cosponsor (person)
- Redondo — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-06** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-10** PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-13** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-13** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2025-03-24** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2025-03-26** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2025-03-26** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-03** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/9/2025)
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** CS passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-10** In Messages
- **2025-04-10** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-29** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-29** Substituted for CS/SB 494
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amendment(s) adopted (687730)
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** In Messages
- **2025-05-01** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-01** Amendment 687730 Concur
- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Chapter No. 2025-102

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b99a2dde-c2b1-477a-a032-5b5e083d7a5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).