---
type: "Bill"
title: "Boating Safety"
description: "Boating Safety; Revises & provides penalties for vessel collisions, accidents, casualties, reckless operation, & providing false information in specified reports; revises requirements for operating certain vessels; requires person convicted of certain noncriminal infractions to pay fine; provides minimum mandatory prison term for BUI manslaughter."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 289"
citation: "Florida HB 289 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes", "vessels"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-197"
primary_sponsors: ["Lopez, V.", "Oliver"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 63
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09ed2aa0-7aca-4b36-8d3a-9418aa629e52"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/289/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5d982a81ccb91c0e8dc46fd09e981db1d665362eefd00ac2370fedee31dafad3"
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 289 (2025) — Boating Safety

Boating Safety; Revises & provides penalties for vessel collisions, accidents, casualties, reckless operation, & providing false information in specified reports; revises requirements for operating certain vessels; requires person convicted of certain noncriminal infractions to pay fine; provides minimum mandatory prison term for BUI manslaughter.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-197.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 289 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/289/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 289 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/289/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 289 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/289/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 289 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/289/BillText/c3/PDF)
5. **H 289 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/289/BillText/e1/PDF)
6. **H 289 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/289/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **93–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **105–5** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- Lopez, V. — primary (person)
- Oliver — primary (person)
- State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
- Booth — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
- Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
- Grow — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Porras — cosponsor (person)
- Redondo — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Tendrich — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Weinberger — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-06** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Referred to Budget Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-07** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-07** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-07** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-10** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2025-03-11** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2025-03-13** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-13** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-14** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2025-03-14** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2025-03-20** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2025-03-20** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-20** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-20** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/26/2025)
- **2025-03-20** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-27** In Messages
- **2025-03-31** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-30** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-30** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-30** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 628
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Amendment(s) adopted (212806)
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In Messages
- **2025-05-01** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-01** Amendment 746971 adopted
- **2025-05-01** Concurred in Senate amendment 212806 as amended
- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 105, NAYS 5 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** In returning messages
- **2025-05-02** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (468576)
- **2025-05-02** Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended to Senate amendment(s) (746971)
- **2025-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 31 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-02** In Messages
- **2025-05-02** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-02** Amendment 468576 Concur
- **2025-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 93, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2025-05-02** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-30** Chapter No. 2025-197

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09ed2aa0-7aca-4b36-8d3a-9418aa629e52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).