---
type: "Bill"
title: "Installation or Use of Tracking Devices or Applications"
description: "Installation or Use of Tracking Devices or Applications; Providing enhanced criminal penalties for a person who, to commit or facilitate the commission of a dangerous crime, knowingly installs or places a tracking device or tracking application on another person’s property without consent or uses such a device or application to determine a person’s or their property’s location or movement without consent, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1168"
citation: "Florida SB 1168 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-71"
primary_sponsors: ["Leek"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdec9865-a5b9-437e-a3e5-dc646061c081"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1168/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d2db99686d64912f148fe1cfe40a16c94bcaf7cef5b4dd3ce7808e4a08b65054"
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 1168 (2025) — Installation or Use of Tracking Devices or Applications

Installation or Use of Tracking Devices or Applications; Providing enhanced criminal penalties for a person who, to commit or facilitate the commission of a dangerous crime, knowingly installs or places a tracking device or tracking application on another person’s property without consent or uses such a device or application to determine a person’s or their property’s location or movement without consent, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-71.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1168 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1168/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1168 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1168/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1168 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1168/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Leek — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-03** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/11/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-11** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2025-03-19** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/24/25, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-24** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-25** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-25** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-26** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/01/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-01** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** 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. 2025-71

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdec9865-a5b9-437e-a3e5-dc646061c081`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).