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Introduced
02/19/2025
02/19/2025
In Committee
04/23/2025
04/23/2025
Crossed Over
04/24/2025
04/24/2025
Passed
05/27/2025
05/27/2025
Dead
Signed/Enacted/Adopted
05/28/2025
05/28/2025
Introduced Session
2025 Regular Session
Bill Summary
An act relating to sexual images; creating s. 800.045, F.S.; providing definitions; prohibiting a person from possessing with the intent to promote specified depictions including a lewd or lascivious image; prohibiting a person from soliciting, possessing, controlling, or intentionally viewing a depiction including a lewd or lascivious image; providing criminal penalties; providing applicability; amending s. 827.071, F.S.; providing criteria that may be used to evidence actual or simulated lewd exhibition of the genitals; prohibiting a person from soliciting a depiction including child pornography; providing a criminal penalty; amending s. 836.13, F.S.; defining the term "generate"; prohibiting a person from willfully generating an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without the consent of the identifiable person; prohibiting a person from soliciting an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without the consent of the identifiable person; prohibiting a person from possessing with the intent to maliciously promote an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without the consent of the identifiable person; providing criminal penalties; revising applicability; hb757 -02-erLegislature amending s. 921.0022, F.S.; ranking offenses created by the act for purposes of the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; providing an effective date.
AI Summary
This bill addresses the creation, distribution, and possession of sexually explicit or altered images, focusing on protecting individuals, especially minors, from unauthorized sexual imagery. The legislation creates new legal provisions and amends existing statutes to criminalize several related activities. Specifically, the bill establishes new offenses related to lewd or lascivious images, including creating, soliciting, possessing, or intentionally viewing such images, with particular emphasis on images involving minors. It defines key terms like "identifiable minor" and provides detailed criteria for what constitutes a lewd or lascivious image, such as the focal point of an image, its setting, and the pose of the subject. The bill creates criminal penalties ranging from third-degree to second-degree felonies for various actions, such as generating altered sexual depictions without consent, soliciting such images, or possessing them with intent to promote. The legislation also updates the state's criminal punishment code to include these new offenses in its severity ranking chart, ensuring appropriate legal consequences for these emerging forms of digital exploitation. The bill aims to protect individuals from non-consensual sexual imagery and address potential technological methods of creating sexually explicit or misleading visual content.
Committee Categories
Justice
Sponsors (11)
Jennifer Kincart Jonsson (R)*,
Mike Redondo (R)*,
Webster Barnaby (R),
Yvette Benarroch (R),
Ryan Chamberlin (R),
Sam Greco (R),
J.J. Grow (R),
Kim Kendall (R),
Michael Owen (R),
Rachel Plakon (R),
Michelle Salzman (R),
Other Sponsors (2)
Criminal Justice Subcommittee (H), Judiciary Committee (H)
Last Action
Chapter No. 2025-99 (on 05/28/2025)
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