---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abandoning Restrained Dogs During Natural Disasters"
description: "Abandoning Restrained Dogs During Natural Disasters; Citing this act as “Trooper’s Law”; providing criminal penalties for restraining a dog outside during a natural disaster and thereafter abandoning the dog, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 150"
citation: "Florida SB 150 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-101"
primary_sponsors: ["Gaetz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb12a829-2661-4619-9232-71c47c3652ef"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/150/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9b732ed0399348d28a4f4c1d4a938e20effee83099d5aa2ce243261016669bf2"
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 150 (2025) — Abandoning Restrained Dogs During Natural Disasters

Abandoning Restrained Dogs During Natural Disasters; Citing this act as “Trooper’s Law”; providing criminal penalties for restraining a dog outside during a natural disaster and thereafter abandoning the dog, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-101.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 150 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/150/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 150 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/150/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 150 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/150/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 150 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/150/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criminal Justice — primary (organization)
- Gaetz — primary (person)
- Arrington — cosponsor (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Ingoglia — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Filed `filing`
- **2025-01-24** Referred to Criminal Justice; Agriculture; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/11/25, 1:45 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-02-11** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2025-02-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-02-13** Now in Agriculture
- **2025-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 03/03/25, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2025-03-03** Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-04** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2025-03-07** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/12/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-12** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-03-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/19/25
- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19** Amendment(s) adopted (376058)
- **2025-03-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-19** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Immediately certified
- **2025-03-19** 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 (Engrossed 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 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered 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. 2025-101

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb12a829-2661-4619-9232-71c47c3652ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).