---
type: "Bill"
title: "Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies"
description: "Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies; Provides additional aggravating factor for sentencing for capital felonies if victim was gathered with one or more persons for specified activities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 693"
citation: "Florida HB 693 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-79"
primary_sponsors: ["Redondo"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8719d2e3-ee00-4c2e-b2a9-9ae17aeb6b9b"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/693/ByCategory"
source_hash: "4100c23351a295a528823c8214d51597465a34e870b4ad3818e261cdf01716c2"
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 693 (2025) — Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies

Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies; Provides additional aggravating factor for sentencing for capital felonies if victim was gathered with one or more persons for specified activities.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-79.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 693 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/693/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 693 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/693/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **32–5** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **96–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Redondo — primary (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** Favorable by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-07** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2025-03-11** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2025-03-13** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2025-03-13** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-03-13** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/3/2025)
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** Passed; YEAS 96, NAYS 10 `passage`
- **2025-04-03** In Messages
- **2025-04-07** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-24** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-24** Substituted for SB 984
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Passed; YEAS 32 NAYS 5 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-24** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-23** Chapter No. 2025-79

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8719d2e3-ee00-4c2e-b2a9-9ae17aeb6b9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).