republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/hb-351.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dangerous Excessive Speeding"
description: "Dangerous Excessive Speeding; Provides conduct that constitutes dangerous excessive speeding; authorizes, rather than requires, officer to indicate applicable civil penalty on certain traffic citations; requires person cited for certain driving infractions to appear at scheduled hearing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 351"
citation: "Florida HB 351 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-77"
primary_sponsors: ["Alvarez, D.", "Plasencia"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 50
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/583c72ea-5d3c-4bb0-a2ad-5e73976461e6"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/351/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0c8a2283bfbfc6a9c59c3e5e0bbab20c13948a4d131d3d21dffe4db0fd2c957a"
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 HB 351 (2025) — Dangerous Excessive Speeding

Dangerous Excessive Speeding; Provides conduct that constitutes dangerous excessive speeding; authorizes, rather than requires, officer to indicate applicable civil penalty on certain traffic citations; requires person cited for certain driving infractions to appear at scheduled hearing.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-77.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 351 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/351/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 351 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/351/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 351 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/351/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 351 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/351/BillText/c3/PDF)
5. **H 351 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/351/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **75–38** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alvarez, D. — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Government Operations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Plasencia — primary (person)
- State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
- Alvarez, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Now in Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** Added to Government Operations Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-25** Favorable with CS by Government Operations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Reported out of Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2025-03-26** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-26** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-28** PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-04-01** Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-04-01** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-01** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-02** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2025-04-15** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2025-04-17** Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2025-04-17** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-17** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-17** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)
- **2025-04-17** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 75, NAYS 38 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In Messages
- **2025-04-23** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-24** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-24** Substituted for CS/SB 1782
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-24** 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. 2025-77

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/583c72ea-5d3c-4bb0-a2ad-5e73976461e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).