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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 253: Offenses Involving Motor Vehicles

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 253 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on January 27, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Offenses Involving Motor Vehicles. Primary sponsor: Doug Bankson (Republican), Criminal Justice Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee. It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (May 20, 2025): Chapter No. 2025-36.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Offenses Involving Motor Vehicles; Reclassifies offense of driving, moving, or causing to be moved vehicle or equipment with certain lighting on highway as third degree felony in specified circumstance; increases the penalty for knowingly altering a motor vehicle registration certificate, a license plate, a temporary license plate, a mobile home sticker, or a validation sticker or obscuring a license plate from a noncriminal traffic infraction to a second degree misdemeanor; provides criminal penalties if person purchases, possesses, manufactures, sells, offers to sell, or otherwise distributes license plate obscuring device; provides enhanced penalty if person uses license plate obscuring device for specified purposes.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Doug BanksonPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse39
Criminal Justice SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Judiciary CommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Johanna LópezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chapter No. 2025-36
  2. Approved by Governor
  3. Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
  4. Ordered enrolled
  5. In Messages
  6. CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0
  7. Read 3rd time
  8. Read 2nd time
  9. Substituted for CS/CS/SB 44
  10. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  11. Withdrawn from Rules
  12. Received

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source