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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 291: Personal Mobility Device Battery Safety Standards

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 291 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on January 29, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Personal Mobility Device Battery Safety Standards. Primary sponsor: Omar Blanco (Republican), Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Commerce Committee.

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.

Personal Mobility Device Battery Safety Standards; Defines "personal mobility device"; prohibits sale of personal mobility device using battery that is not certified as meeting specified ingress protection standard; provides penalties.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Omar BlancoPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse115
Industries & Professional Activities SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“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. Died in Commerce Committee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Now in Commerce Committee
  4. Referred to Commerce Committee
  5. 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
  6. CS Filed
  7. Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
  8. Reported out of Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
  9. Favorable with CS by Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
  10. PCS added to Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee agenda
  11. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  12. Now in Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee

Showing 12 most recent of 16 actions. Full history

Sources

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