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Introduced Session

An act relating to prostitution and related acts; creating s. 796.011, F.S.; defining terms; creating s. 796.031, F.S.; prohibiting adults from offering to commit, committing, or engaging in prostitution, lewdness, or assignation; providing that specified testimony concerning reputation is admissible in evidence in the trial of persons charged with certain offenses; providing criminal penalties; requiring a court to order that a person sentenced for certain violations attend an educational program; authorizing judicial circuits to establish certain educational programs; repealing s. 796.04, F.S., relating to forcing, compelling, or coercing another to become a prostitute; amending s. 796.06, F.S.; prohibiting persons from owning, establishing, maintaining, operating, using, letting, or renting a building, residence, place, or structure, in whole or in part, or a trailer or any other conveyance, when such person knows or should have known that it will be used for the purpose of commercial sex; prohibiting the receiving, or offering or agreeing to receive, a person into a building, residence, place, or structure, or a trailer or any other conveyance, for the purpose of commercial sexual activity or to allow a person to remain there for such purpose; providing criminal penalties; providing enhanced criminal penalties for second or subsequent violations; providing that specified testimony concerning reputation is admissible in evidence in the trial of persons charged with certain offenses; requiring the reclassification of offenses under specified circumstances; amending s. 796.07, F.S.; deleting definitions; prohibiting a person from providing, or offering to provide, something of value in exchange for sexual activity; deleting prohibited acts relating to prostitution and related acts; deleting a provision authorizing a police officer to testify under certain circumstances; providing criminal penalties; providing enhanced criminal penalties for second or subsequent violations; deleting a requirement that a person charged with a third or subsequent violation be offered admission into certain programs; requiring a court to order that certain defendants perform community service, pay for and attend an educational program, pay a civil penalty, and receive sexually transmitted disease testing; providing requirements for the proceeds of the civil penalty; deleting a minimum mandatory period of incarceration for the commission of a certain offense; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 921.0022, F.S.; ranking on level 4 of the offense severity ranking chart a second violation of prostitution or related acts; amending ss. 60.05, 322.28, 397.4073, 397.417, 435.07, 456.074, 480.041, 480.043, 480.046, 772.102, 787.01, 787.02, 794.056, 796.08, 796.09, 893.138, 895.02, and 938.085, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; conforming cross-references; providing an effective date.

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Erin Grall (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (1)

Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration (on 05/03/2025)

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