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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 501: Hands-free Driving

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 501 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 10, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Hands-free Driving. Primary sponsor: Allison Tant (Democratic). It lists 8 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Government Operations Subcommittee.

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.

Hands-free Driving; Prohibits person from operating motor vehicle while using wireless communications device in handheld manner; provides exception; requires that sustained use of wireless communications device by person operating motor vehicle be conducted through hands-free accessory until such use is terminated; revises exceptions to prohibition; removes obsolete provisions; revises penalty provisions relating to use of wireless communications devices in handheld manner in certain circumstances.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 6 · Republican 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Allison TantPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse9
Yvette BenarrochCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse81
Daryl CampbellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse99
Anna EskamaniCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
J.J. GrowCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse23
Rita HarrisCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse44
Yvonne HinsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse21
Christine HunschofskyCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse95
Mike RedondoCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse118

“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 Government Operations Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  4. Now in Government Operations Subcommittee
  5. Referred to State Affairs Committee
  6. Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee
  7. Filed

Sources

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