bf8b4e475b
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
100 lines
4.6 KiB
Markdown
100 lines
4.6 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances Resulting in Death"
|
||
description: "Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances Resulting in Death; Defining the terms “dangerous fentanyl or fentanyl analogs” and “distribute”; creating an offense of murder in the third degree, etc."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
|
||
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
|
||
session: "2025"
|
||
identifier: "SB 612"
|
||
citation: "Florida SB 612 (2025)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
chapter_law: "2025-69"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Burgess"]
|
||
version_count: 4
|
||
action_count: 32
|
||
vote_count: 5
|
||
first_action: "2025-02-11"
|
||
last_action: "2025-05-23"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c91e47a5-f073-44c4-a2dd-e1d61f041b3a"
|
||
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/612/ByCategory"
|
||
source_hash: "9204b37b7d6c75c8d1f50f19335695efbe1306a4a4363057c88fdf30f7a14dce"
|
||
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 SB 612 (2025) — Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances Resulting in Death
|
||
|
||
Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances Resulting in Death; Defining the terms “dangerous fentanyl or fentanyl analogs” and “distribute”; creating an offense of murder in the third degree, etc.
|
||
|
||
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-69.
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **S 612 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/612/BillText/Filed/HTML)
|
||
2. **S 612 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/612/BillText/c1/HTML)
|
||
3. **S 612 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/612/BillText/e1/HTML)
|
||
4. **S 612 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/612/BillText/er/HTML)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- Favorable — **14–4** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Favorable — **8–1** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Third Reading — **31–5** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–1** (pass) · lower
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Burgess — primary (person)
|
||
- Criminal Justice — primary (organization)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2025-02-11** Filed `filing`
|
||
- **2025-02-20** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
|
||
- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
|
||
- **2025-03-25** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
|
||
- **2025-03-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
|
||
- **2025-03-26** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
|
||
- **2025-03-27** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
|
||
- **2025-04-10** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 04/15/25, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
|
||
- **2025-04-15** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2025-04-16** Now in Fiscal Policy
|
||
- **2025-04-17** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/22/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
|
||
- **2025-04-22** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 14 NAYS 4 `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2025-04-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
|
||
- **2025-04-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/25
|
||
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2025-04-24** Amendment(s) adopted (319966)
|
||
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
|
||
- **2025-04-24** CS passed as amended; YEAS 31 NAYS 5 `passage`
|
||
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
|
||
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
|
||
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
|
||
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
|
||
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
|
||
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
|
||
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
|
||
- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 1 `passage`
|
||
- **2025-04-29** 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. 2025-69
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c91e47a5-f073-44c4-a2dd-e1d61f041b3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
|
||
|