republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/hb-289.md

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Bill	Boating Safety	Boating Safety; Revises & provides penalties for vessel collisions, accidents, casualties, reckless operation, & providing false information in specified reports; revises requirements for operating certain vessels; requires person convicted of certain noncriminal infractions to pay fine; provides minimum mandatory prison term for BUI manslaughter.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	HB 289	Florida HB 289 (2025)	bill	crimes vessels	enacted	2025-197	Lopez, V. Oliver	6	63	5	2025-01-29	2025-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/09ed2aa0-7aca-4b36-8d3a-9418aa629e52	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/289/ByCategory	5d982a81ccb91c0e8dc46fd09e981db1d665362eefd00ac2370fedee31dafad3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 289 (2025) — Boating Safety

Boating Safety; Revises & provides penalties for vessel collisions, accidents, casualties, reckless operation, & providing false information in specified reports; revises requirements for operating certain vessels; requires person convicted of certain noncriminal infractions to pay fine; provides minimum mandatory prison term for BUI manslaughter.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-197.

Version chain

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

1. H 289 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 289 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 289 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 289 c3 (committee substitute) — source
5. H 289 e1 (engrossed) — source
6. H 289 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 93–1 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 105–5 (pass) · lower
• Returning Messages — 31–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
• Lopez, V. — primary (person)
• Oliver — primary (person)
• State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
• Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• Blanco — cosponsor (person)
• Booth — cosponsor (person)
• Chaney — cosponsor (person)
• Cross — cosponsor (person)
• Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
• Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
• Grow — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Mooney — cosponsor (person)
• Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Porras — cosponsor (person)
• Redondo — cosponsor (person)
• Rizo — cosponsor (person)
• Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
• Salzman — cosponsor (person)
• Tendrich — cosponsor (person)
• Valdés — cosponsor (person)
• Weinberger — cosponsor (person)
• Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 Filed filing
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Budget Committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2025-03-04 PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2025-03-04 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2025-03-06 Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2025-03-07 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2025-03-07 CS Filed filing
• 2025-03-07 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2025-03-10 Referred to State Affairs Committee referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Now in State Affairs Committee
• 2025-03-11 Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
• 2025-03-13 Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Reported out of State Affairs Committee
• 2025-03-13 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2025-03-13 CS Filed filing
• 2025-03-14 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2025-03-14 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2025-03-14 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2025-03-18 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2025-03-20 Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-20 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2025-03-20 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2025-03-20 CS Filed filing
• 2025-03-20 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2025-03-20 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/26/2025)
• 2025-03-20 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) reading-1
• 2025-03-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-26 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-03-26 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-03-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-26 CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-03-27 In Messages
• 2025-03-31 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Received enrolled
• 2025-04-30 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2025-04-30 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-30 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 628
• 2025-04-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-30 Amendment(s) adopted (212806)
• 2025-04-30 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-30 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-30 In Messages
• 2025-05-01 Senate Message List
• 2025-05-01 Amendment 746971 adopted
• 2025-05-01 Concurred in Senate amendment 212806 as amended
• 2025-05-01 CS passed as amended; YEAS 105, NAYS 5 passage
• 2025-05-01 In returning messages
• 2025-05-02 Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (468576)
• 2025-05-02 Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended to Senate amendment(s) (746971)
• 2025-05-02 CS passed as amended; YEAS 31 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-05-02 In Messages
• 2025-05-02 Senate Message List
• 2025-05-02 Amendment 468576 Concur
• 2025-05-02 CS passed as amended; YEAS 93, NAYS 1 passage
• 2025-05-02 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-18 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-27 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-30 Chapter No. 2025-197

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/09ed2aa0-7aca-4b36-8d3a-9418aa629e52. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).