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IntroducedDec 01, 2025
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Passed HouseFeb 25, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Florida House Bill
Animal Welfare; Creates offense of causing or enticing minor to commit, or in presence of minor committing, animal cruelty; requires court order minor who commits specified acts of animal cruelty to undergo psychological evaluation & receive counseling & treatment; requires parent, guardian, or state to pay for evaluation, counseling, & treatment; authorizes court to hold parent or guardian in contempt; requires FDLE to post on website information relating to individuals convicted of specified animal cruelty offenses; specifies time periods for posting information; requires department develop procedure for person to petition for removal of his or her information; requires department remove specified information; specifies time period within which information must be removed; authorizes department to adopt rules; requires clerks of court & county detention facilities to provide FDLE with specified information, data, & images; creates offense of causing or enticing minor to commit, or in presence of minor committing, fighting or baiting animals; creates offense of causing or enticing minor to commit, or in presence of minor committing, sexual activities involving animals; increases maximum civil penalty for specified violations of animal control or cruelty ordinances; increases level on offense severity ranking chart for fighting or baiting animals; ranks offenses on offense severity ranking chart.
Summary
Comments on HB 559
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Criminal Justice Subcommitteeprimary


- Bartlemancosponsor
- Basabecosponsor
- Crosscosponsor
- Hunschofskycosponsor
- Mooneycosponsor
- Plasenciacosponsor
- Valdéscosponsor
- Weinbergercosponsor
Votes
YES: 114
- Abbott
- Eskamani
- Oliver
- Albert
- Esposito
- Overdorf
- Alvarez, D.
- Fabricio
- Owen
- Alvarez, J.
- Franklin
- Partington
- Anderson
- Gantt
- Perez
- Andrade
- Garrison
- Persons-Mulicka
- Antone
- Gentry
- Plakon
- Aristide
- Gerwig
- Plasencia
- Baker
- Giallombardo
- Porras
- Bankson
- Gonzalez Pittman
- Rayner
- Barnaby
- Gossett-Seidman
- Redondo
- Bartleman
- Gottlieb
- Rizo
- Basabe
- Greco
- Robinson, F.
- Benarroch
- Griffitts
- Robinson, W.
- Berfield
- Grow
- Rosenwald
- Black
- Harris
- Salzman
- Blanco
- Hart-Lowman
- Booth
- Shoaf
- Borrero
- Hodgers
- Sirois
- Botana
- Holcomb
- Skidmore
- Boyles
- Hunschofsky
- Smith
- Brackett
- Jacques
- Snyder
- Brannan
- Johnson
- Spencer
- Buchanan
- Stark
- Busatta
- Kendall
- Steele
- Campbell
- Kincart Jonsson
- Tant
- Canady
- Koster
- Tendrich
- Cassel
- LaMarca
- Tomkow
- Chamberlin
- Long
- Trabulsy
- Chambliss
- López, J.
- Tramont
- Chaney
- Maggard
- Tuck
- Cobb
- Maney
- Valdés
- Conerly
- McClure
- Weinberger
- Cross
- McFarland
- Woodson
- Daley
- Melo
- Yarkosky
- Daniels
- Michael
- Yeager
- Driskell
- Miller
- Young
- Duggan
- Mooney
- Dunkley
- Nix
- Edmonds
- Nixon
NO: 0
Actions
- Feb 26, 2026 | Senate
- Referred to Rules
- Received
- Feb 25, 2026 | Senate
- In Messages
- Feb 25, 2026 | House
- Read 2nd time
- Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Read 3rd time
- CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0
- Feb 19, 2026 | House
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/25/2026)
- Feb 17, 2026 | House
- Favorable by Judiciary Committee
- Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- Bill released to House Calendar
- Added to Second Reading Calendar
- Feb 13, 2026 | House
- Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- Feb 06, 2026 | House
- Referred to Judiciary Committee
- Now in Judiciary Committee
- Feb 05, 2026 | House
- Favorable with CS by Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- CS Filed
- 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- Feb 03, 2026 | House
- PCS added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- Jan 13, 2026 | House
- 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- Dec 12, 2025 | House
- Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Referred to Justice Budget Subcommittee
- Referred to Judiciary Committee
- Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Dec 01, 2025 | House
- Filed
Bill Texts
