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| Bill | Animal Welfare | Animal Welfare; Creating the offense of causing or enticing a minor to commit, or in the presence of a minor committing, animal cruelty; requiring a court to order a minor who commits specified acts of animal cruelty to undergo a psychological evaluation and receive counseling and treatment for a specified time period; requiring the minor's parent or guardian or the state to pay the cost of such evaluation, counseling, and treatment; providing an exception; authorizing the court to hold the parent or guardian in contempt under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website specified information relating to each individual convicted of specified animal cruelty offenses; specifying time periods for which the information shall be posted; requiring the department to develop a procedure to allow a person to petition for the removal of his or her information under specified circumstances; requiring the department to remove specified information under specified circumstances; specifying the time period within which such information must be removed; authorizing the department to adopt rules; requiring clerks of court and county detention facilities to provide the Department of Law Enforcement with specified information, data, and images; creating the offense of causing or enticing a minor to commit, or in the presence of a minor committing, fighting or baiting animals; creating the offense of causing or enticing a minor to commit, or in the presence of a minor committing, sexual activities involving animals; increasing the maximum civil penalty for specified violations of ordinances relating to animal control or cruelty; increasing the level on the offense severity ranking chart for fighting or baiting animals; ranking offenses created by the act on the offense severity ranking chart, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2026 | HB 559 | Florida HB 559 (2026) |
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enacted | 2026-78 |
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3 | 38 | 4 | 2025-12-01 | 2026-05-13 | openstates | ocd-bill/14b4d957-307d-42b8-90c5-3a053a5592f8 | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/559/ByCategory | c67ae607571bc5dad660e147f2348d044fab4cae11c3938407b22aadbdb8b999 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida HB 559 (2026) — Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare; Creating the offense of causing or enticing a minor to commit, or in the presence of a minor committing, animal cruelty; requiring a court to order a minor who commits specified acts of animal cruelty to undergo a psychological evaluation and receive counseling and treatment for a specified time period; requiring the minor's parent or guardian or the state to pay the cost of such evaluation, counseling, and treatment; providing an exception; authorizing the court to hold the parent or guardian in contempt under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website specified information relating to each individual convicted of specified animal cruelty offenses; specifying time periods for which the information shall be posted; requiring the department to develop a procedure to allow a person to petition for the removal of his or her information under specified circumstances; requiring the department to remove specified information under specified circumstances; specifying the time period within which such information must be removed; authorizing the department to adopt rules; requiring clerks of court and county detention facilities to provide the Department of Law Enforcement with specified information, data, and images; creating the offense of causing or enticing a minor to commit, or in the presence of a minor committing, fighting or baiting animals; creating the offense of causing or enticing a minor to commit, or in the presence of a minor committing, sexual activities involving animals; increasing the maximum civil penalty for specified violations of ordinances relating to animal control or cruelty; increasing the level on the offense severity ranking chart for fighting or baiting animals; ranking offenses created by the act on the offense severity ranking chart, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-78.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Favorable (Judiciary Committee) — 19–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Criminal Justice Subcommittee) — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Chaney — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- López, J. — primary (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
- Weinberger — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-12-01 Filed
filing - 2025-12-12 Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-12-12 Referred to Justice Budget Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-12-12 Referred to Judiciary Committee
referral-committee - 2025-12-12 Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- 2026-01-13 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
filing, reading-1 - 2026-02-03 PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- 2026-02-05 Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-02-05 Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- 2026-02-05 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2026-02-05 CS Filed
filing - 2026-02-05 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
reading-1 - 2026-02-06 Referred to Judiciary Committee
referral-committee - 2026-02-06 Now in Judiciary Committee
- 2026-02-13 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- 2026-02-17 Favorable by Judiciary Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-02-17 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- 2026-02-17 Bill released to House Calendar
- 2026-02-17 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2026-02-19 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/25/2026)
- 2026-02-25 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-02-25 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2026-02-25 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-02-25 CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0
passage - 2026-02-25 In Messages
- 2026-02-26 Referred to Rules
referral-committee - 2026-02-26 Received
enrolled - 2026-03-04 Withdrawn from Rules
withdrawal - 2026-03-04 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2026-03-04 Substituted for CS/SB 676
- 2026-03-04 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-03-04 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-03-04 CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
passage - 2026-03-04 In Messages
- 2026-03-04 Ordered enrolled
enrolled - 2026-05-11 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2026-05-12 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2026-05-13 Chapter No. 2026-78
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/14b4d957-307d-42b8-90c5-3a053a5592f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).