2025 Regular SessionFlorida Legislature

S0058: Boating Safety

Legislative Summary

Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue original, renewal, or replacement identification cards with a lifetime boating safety identification card symbol to applicants if certain conditions are met; providing increased criminal penalties for the reckless operation of a vessel which causes serious bodily injury to another; revising the conditions that compose the offense of, and penalties for, boating under the influence (BUI); revising the definition of the term "vessel homicide" to include the killing of an unborn child by causing injury to the mother by operation of a vessel in a reckless manner under certain circumstances, etc.

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Bill History

11/21/2024
Filed
Senate
1/15/2025
Referred to Criminal Justice; Transportation; Fiscal Policy
Senate
3/4/2025
Introduced
Senate
3/20/2025
On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
Senate
5/3/2025
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
Senate

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(11/21/2024)
Chamber
Senate

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text11/21/202469.9 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter3/24/2025275.3 KB