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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 58: Boating Safety

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

SB 58 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on November 21, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Boating Safety. Primary sponsor: Ileana Garcia (Republican). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Criminal Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 289 (Ch. 2025-197).

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.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ileana GarciaPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate36

“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 Criminal Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 289 (Ch. 2025-197)
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
  4. Introduced
  5. Referred to Criminal Justice; Transportation; Fiscal Policy
  6. Filed

Sources

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