The Florida Senate

SB 2478: Sex Trafficking [LPCC]

GENERAL BILL by Lynn

Sex Trafficking [LPCC]; (THIS BILL COMBINED IN CS/CS/S1722 & S2478) Increases penalties for procuring a minor for prostitution. Provides enhanced penalties for forcing, compelling, or coercing another to become a prostitute. Increases penalties for selling or buying minors into sex trafficking or prostitution. Provides additional prostitution offenses that may subject a place to being declared a public nuisance by a county or municipality and abated, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  2/28/2008	Senate	• Filed
  3/13/2008	Senate	• Introduced, referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations -SJ 00276
  4/11/2008	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 04/16/08, 3:30 pm, 401-S --Temporarily postponed
  4/16/2008	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 04/21/08, 2:30 pm, 401-S
  4/21/2008	Senate	• CS combines this bill with SB 1722 -SJ 00753; CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 -SJ 00753; Original bill laid on Table, refer to combined CS/CS/SB 1722 (Died in Senate Committee on Judiciary) -SJ 00753

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• SB 2478, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/28/2008 at 3:27 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Criminal Justice (Post-Meeting) 4/2/2008 (pdf)

  Related Bills (2)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 1151 (e1)	Sex Trafficking	Hukill	Similar	Last Action: 5/2/2008 S Died in Messages Location:
  S 1722 (c2)	Sex Trafficking [EPCC]	Lynn	Compare	Last Action: 5/2/2008 S Died in Committee on Judiciary Location:

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  4/21/2008 2:30 PM	Criminal Justice	View Vote Record

  Citations - Statutes (20)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  322.28	Period of suspension or revocation.
  772.102	Definitions.
  775.21	The Florida Sexual Predators Act.
  796.011
  796.03	Procuring person under age of 18 for prostitution.
  796.035	Selling or buying of minors into sex trafficking or prostitution; penalties.
  796.04	Forcing, compelling, or coercing another to become a prostitute.
  796.045	Sex trafficking; penalties.
  796.05	Deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution.
  796.06	Renting space to be used for lewdness, assignation, or prostitution.
  796.07	Prohibiting prostitution, etc.; evidence; penalties; definitions.
  796.09	Coercion; civil cause of action; evidence; defenses; attorney's fees.
  796.10
  823.05	Places declared a nuisance; may be abated and enjoined.
  893.138	Local administrative action to abate drug-related, prostitution-related, or stolen-property-related public nuisances and criminal street gang activity.
  895.02	Definitions.
  921.0022	Criminal Punishment Code; offense severity ranking chart.
  943.0435	Sexual offenders required to register with the department; penalty.
  944.606	Sexual offenders; notification upon release.
  944.607	Notification to Department of Law Enforcement of information on sexual offenders.

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