Florida · Senate Bill 58 · 2025 Regular Session

Boating Safety

SB 58 Sponsored by Ileana Garcia Died in committee

  1. Introduced Nov 21, 2024
  2. In committee Jan 15, 2025
  3. Died  
  4. Passed the House  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law  

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Boating Safety; 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…

Read the full title (103 words)

Boating Safety; 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.

Every action

6 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Criminal Justice; Transportation; Fiscal Policy · Senate Criminal Justice
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed · Senate Criminal Justice
  5. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  6. CommitteeDied in Criminal Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 289 (Ch. 2025-197 ) · Senate Criminal Justice

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.