Florida House Bill 521 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on March 14 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-14 - Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Revises definition of term "coercion"; provides criminal penalties for engaging in human trafficking or benefiting financially by receiving value from human trafficking using labor or services or commercial sexual activity of an adult; prohibits facilitating or enabling receiving of persons for purpose of prostitution, lewdness, or assignation, or facilitating or enabling any person to remain there for such purposes; provides increased criminal penalties for specified prohibited acts relating to prostitution, lewdness, or assignation.

Human Trafficking and Prostitution

Rep. Kelly Skidmore [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-14	House	Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
2022-03-12	House	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2022-01-11	House	1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
2021-11-19	House	Now in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
2021-11-19	House	Referred to Judiciary Committee
2021-11-19	House	Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
2021-11-19	House	Referred to Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
2021-11-05	House	Filed

S760 (Same As) 2022-03-14 - Died in Appropriations

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
456	074		Amended Code	See Bill Text
480	041		Amended Code	See Bill Text
787	06		Amended Code	See Bill Text
796	07		Amended Code	See Bill Text
943	0433		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/521
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/521/BillText/Filed/PDF