The Florida Senate

HB 521: Human Trafficking and Prostitution

GENERAL BILL by Skidmore

Human Trafficking and Prostitution; 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.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  11/5/2021	House	• Filed
  11/19/2021	House	• Referred to Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee • Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee • Referred to Judiciary Committee • Now in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee
  1/11/2022	House	• 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  3/12/2022	House	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3/14/2022	House	• Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee

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• HB 521, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/5/2021 at 10:38 AM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 760 (c1)	Human Trafficking	Berman	Similar	Last Action: 3/14/2022 S Died in Appropriations

  Citations - Statutes (5)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  456.074	Certain health care practitioners; immediate suspension of license.	Page 9 (pdf)
  480.041	Massage therapists; qualifications; licensure; endorsement.	Page 11 (pdf)
  787.06	Human trafficking.	Page 1 (pdf)
  796.07	Prohibiting prostitution and related acts.	Page 7 (pdf)
  943.0433	Soliciting for Prostitution Public Database.	Page 13 (pdf)

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