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Bill	Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies	Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies; Adds as an aggravating factor that capital felony was committed against head of state, or in an attempt to commit such crime capital felony was committed against another individual.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	HB 653	Florida HB 653 (2025)	bill	criminal procedure and corrections	enacted	2025-138	Holcomb Nix	2	35	2	2025-02-17	2025-06-16	openstates	ocd-bill/dec22bdc-3a92-4ba5-a5af-cbf510dc53ea	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/653/ByCategory	4bf017c958848556a03b7838ea1a98a64e3f8e8a5cc6bcd5633acf5f3edf82fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 653 (2025) — Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies

Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies; Adds as an aggravating factor that capital felony was committed against head of state, or in an attempt to commit such crime capital felony was committed against another individual.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-138.

Version chain

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

1. H 653 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 653 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 99–13 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 25–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Holcomb — primary (person)
• Nix — primary (person)
• Fabricio — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-17 Filed filing
• 2025-02-26 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2025-03-04 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2025-03-10 Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
• 2025-03-12 Favorable by Criminal Justice Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-12 Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• 2025-03-12 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2025-03-24 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2025-03-26 Favorable by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-26 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2025-03-26 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2025-03-26 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-17 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
• 2025-04-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-24 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-24 Passed; YEAS 99, NAYS 13 passage
• 2025-04-24 In Messages
• 2025-04-24 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2025-04-24 Received enrolled
• 2025-04-29 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2025-04-29 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-29 Substituted for SB 776
• 2025-04-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-29 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-30 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-30 Passed; YEAS 25 NAYS 12 passage
• 2025-04-30 In Messages
• 2025-04-30 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-12 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-13 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-16 Chapter No. 2025-138

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dec22bdc-3a92-4ba5-a5af-cbf510dc53ea. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).