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| Bill | Offenses Involving Motor Vehicles | Offenses Involving Motor Vehicles; Reclassifies offense of driving, moving, or causing to be moved vehicle or equipment with certain lighting on highway as third degree felony in specified circumstance; increases the penalty for knowingly altering a motor vehicle registration certificate, a license plate, a temporary license plate, a mobile home sticker, or a validation sticker or obscuring a license plate from a noncriminal traffic infraction to a second degree misdemeanor; provides criminal penalties if person purchases, possesses, manufactures, sells, offers to sell, or otherwise distributes license plate obscuring device; provides enhanced penalty if person uses license plate obscuring device for specified purposes. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2025 | HB 253 | Florida HB 253 (2025) |
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enacted | 2025-36 |
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5 | 48 | 2 | 2025-01-27 | 2025-05-20 | openstates | ocd-bill/c7395b4e-adfd-42dc-9718-fe5d52cad4dc | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/253/ByCategory | dfcf6bae8ab29aee74f39bd68fb4aca74a85f8b09f1d8fbf53499b46cc0b450b | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 253 (2025) — Offenses Involving Motor Vehicles
Offenses Involving Motor Vehicles; Reclassifies offense of driving, moving, or causing to be moved vehicle or equipment with certain lighting on highway as third degree felony in specified circumstance; increases the penalty for knowingly altering a motor vehicle registration certificate, a license plate, a temporary license plate, a mobile home sticker, or a validation sticker or obscuring a license plate from a noncriminal traffic infraction to a second degree misdemeanor; provides criminal penalties if person purchases, possesses, manufactures, sells, offers to sell, or otherwise distributes license plate obscuring device; provides enhanced penalty if person uses license plate obscuring device for specified purposes.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-36.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- H 253 Filed (filed) — source
- H 253 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 253 c2 (committee substitute) — source
- H 253 e1 (engrossed) — source
- H 253 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Bankson — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-27 Filed
filing - 2025-02-06 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-02-06 Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-02-06 Referred to Judiciary Committee
referral-committee - 2025-02-06 Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- 2025-03-04 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
filing, reading-1 - 2025-03-10 PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- 2025-03-12 Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-03-12 Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- 2025-03-13 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2025-03-13 CS Filed
filing - 2025-03-13 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
reading-1 - 2025-03-14 Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-03-14 Referred to Judiciary Committee
referral-committee - 2025-03-14 Now in Government Operations Subcommittee
- 2025-03-21 Added to Government Operations Subcommittee agenda
- 2025-03-25 Favorable by Government Operations Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-03-25 Reported out of Government Operations Subcommittee
- 2025-03-25 Now in Judiciary Committee
- 2025-04-04 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- 2025-04-08 Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-04-08 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- 2025-04-08 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2025-04-08 CS Filed
filing - 2025-04-08 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
reading-1 - 2025-04-09 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2025-04-09 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2025-04-10 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025)
- 2025-04-16 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2025-04-16 Amendment 779263 adopted
- 2025-04-16 Placed on 3rd reading
reading-3 - 2025-04-16 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2025-04-16 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2025-04-16 CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0
passage - 2025-04-16 In Messages
- 2025-04-16 Referred to Rules
referral-committee - 2025-04-22 Received
enrolled - 2025-04-23 Withdrawn from Rules
withdrawal - 2025-04-23 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2025-04-23 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 44
- 2025-04-23 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2025-04-23 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2025-04-23 CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0
passage - 2025-04-23 In Messages
- 2025-04-23 Ordered enrolled
enrolled - 2025-05-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2025-05-19 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2025-05-20 Chapter No. 2025-36
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7395b4e-adfd-42dc-9718-fe5d52cad4dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).