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| Bill | Dangerous Dogs | Dangerous Dogs; Requiring, rather than authorizing, that dogs subject to certain dangerous dog investigations which have killed or bitten a human being to a certain severity be immediately confiscated, placed in quarantine if necessary, impounded, and held; requiring the owner of a dog subject to a dangerous dog investigation to provide certain information to an animal control authority; requiring an animal shelter, a humane organization, or certain animal control agencies to provide specified information to potential adopters; revising the conditions under which an owner is authorized to exercise a dangerous dog; revising the civil penalty for violations; providing criminal penalties for persons who resist or obstruct an animal control authority, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2025 | HB 593 | Florida HB 593 (2025) |
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enacted | 2025-61 |
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4 | 49 | 3 | 2025-02-13 | 2025-05-22 | openstates | ocd-bill/3e4ada43-19a0-48ee-86e2-d4ba7224aca7 | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/593/ByCategory | f6deba1cd0a7ee2e2e4a1137362687ff5729286b56b573bbb55ca4da2c25b021 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 593 (2025) — Dangerous Dogs
Dangerous Dogs; Requiring, rather than authorizing, that dogs subject to certain dangerous dog investigations which have killed or bitten a human being to a certain severity be immediately confiscated, placed in quarantine if necessary, impounded, and held; requiring the owner of a dog subject to a dangerous dog investigation to provide certain information to an animal control authority; requiring an animal shelter, a humane organization, or certain animal control agencies to provide specified information to potential adopters; revising the conditions under which an owner is authorized to exercise a dangerous dog; revising the civil penalty for violations; providing criminal penalties for persons who resist or obstruct an animal control authority, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-61.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- H 593 Filed (filed) — source
- H 593 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 593 e1 (engrossed) — source
- H 593 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Third Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage — 112–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Sapp — primary (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Casello — cosponsor (person)
- Chamberlin — cosponsor (person)
- Chambliss — cosponsor (person)
- Driskell — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Partington — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-02-13 Filed
filing - 2025-02-19 Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-02-19 Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-02-19 Referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources Budget Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-02-19 Referred to State Affairs Committee
referral-committee - 2025-02-19 Now in Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
- 2025-03-04 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
filing, reading-1 - 2025-03-17 Added to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee agenda
- 2025-03-19 Favorable with CS by Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-03-20 Reported out of Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
- 2025-03-20 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2025-03-20 CS Filed
filing - 2025-03-20 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
reading-1 - 2025-03-21 Referred to Judiciary Committee
referral-committee - 2025-03-21 Referred to State Affairs Committee
referral-committee - 2025-03-21 Now in Judiciary Committee
- 2025-04-04 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- 2025-04-08 Favorable by Judiciary Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-04-08 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- 2025-04-08 Now in State Affairs Committee
- 2025-04-15 Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- 2025-04-17 Favorable by State Affairs Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-04-17 Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- 2025-04-17 Bill released to House Calendar
- 2025-04-17 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2025-04-17 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)
- 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 115, NAYS 0
passage - 2025-04-23 In Messages
- 2025-04-23 Referred to Fiscal Policy
referral-committee - 2025-04-23 Received
enrolled - 2025-04-28 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy
withdrawal - 2025-04-28 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2025-04-28 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 572
- 2025-04-28 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2025-04-28 Amendment(s) adopted (874468)
- 2025-04-28 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2025-04-28 CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0
passage - 2025-04-28 In Messages
- 2025-04-30 Senate Message List
- 2025-04-30 Amendment 874468 Concur
- 2025-04-30 CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0
passage - 2025-04-30 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
enrolled - 2025-05-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2025-05-21 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2025-05-22 Chapter No. 2025-61
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3e4ada43-19a0-48ee-86e2-d4ba7224aca7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).