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| Bill | Catalytic Converters | Catalytic Converters; Designating the “Catalytic Converter Antitheft Act”; prohibiting a person from knowingly purchasing a detached catalytic converter unless he or she is a registered secondary metals recycler; prohibiting a person from knowingly importing, manufacturing, purchasing for a certain purpose, selling, offering for sale, or installing or reinstalling a counterfeit, fake, or nonfunctional catalytic converter; prohibiting a secondary metals recycler from processing or removing a detached catalytic converter from the recycler’s place of business for a specified number of days, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2023 | SB 306 | Florida SB 306 (2023) |
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enacted | 2023-114 |
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4 | 35 | 5 | 2023-01-19 | 2023-05-25 | openstates | ocd-bill/7476e303-aafb-470d-a481-78a981999e38 | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/306/ByCategory | 11842a0548e076d768234f631d2db4c4df712ee4258a5aa964d5ad0a3eca7d9f | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida SB 306 (2023) — Catalytic Converters
Catalytic Converters; Designating the “Catalytic Converter Antitheft Act”; prohibiting a person from knowingly purchasing a detached catalytic converter unless he or she is a registered secondary metals recycler; prohibiting a person from knowingly importing, manufacturing, purchasing for a certain purpose, selling, offering for sale, or installing or reinstalling a counterfeit, fake, or nonfunctional catalytic converter; prohibiting a secondary metals recycler from processing or removing a detached catalytic converter from the recycler’s place of business for a specified number of days, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-114.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- S 306 Filed (filed) — source
- S 306 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- S 306 c2 (committee substitute) — source
- S 306 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — 105–2 (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — 12–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable — 19–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Boyd — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice — primary (person)
- Hooper — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-01-19 Filed
filing - 2023-01-26 Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
referral-committee - 2023-02-06 On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/14/23, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- 2023-02-14 CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- 2023-02-15 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- 2023-02-16 Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- 2023-03-07 Introduced
introduction - 2023-03-07 CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- 2023-03-09 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/14/23, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- 2023-03-14 CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
- 2023-03-16 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- 2023-03-16 Now in Fiscal Policy
- 2023-03-21 CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- 2023-03-23 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/28/23, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- 2023-03-28 Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-03-29 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2023-03-30 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/04/23
- 2023-04-04 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2023-04-04 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-04-04 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
passage - 2023-04-04 Immediately certified
- 2023-04-05 In Messages
- 2023-04-13 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2023-04-13 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/18/2023)
- 2023-04-13 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
reading-1 - 2023-04-18 Substituted for CS/HB 185
- 2023-04-18 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2023-04-18 Placed on 3rd reading
reading-3 - 2023-04-18 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2023-04-19 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2023-04-19 CS passed; YEAS 105, NAYS 2
passage - 2023-04-19 Ordered enrolled
enrolled - 2023-05-23 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2023-05-24 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2023-05-25 Chapter No. 2023-114
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7476e303-aafb-470d-a481-78a981999e38. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).