---
type: "Bill"
title: "Arrest Booking Photographs"
description: "Arrest Booking Photographs; Prohibiting the republishing or redissemination of certain arrest booking photographs; authorizing a person whose arrest booking photograph is republished or redisseminated to bring a civil action against the person or entity republishing or redisseminating the photograph if such person or entity was required to remove it from the publication or electronic medium; authorizing a court to impose a specified civil penalty; requiring a court to award reasonable attorney fees and court costs, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1046"
citation: "Florida SB 1046 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-132"
primary_sponsors: ["Bean"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-03"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d84bdf0d-6fdd-428e-aade-38a054e33a72"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1046/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2c9b3afa0be5b10181705bcc5818a673f0ce1105d5d1af81a5ebabca94fca6a2"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 1046 (2021) — Arrest Booking Photographs

Arrest Booking Photographs; Prohibiting the republishing or redissemination of certain arrest booking photographs; authorizing a person whose arrest booking photograph is republished or redisseminated to bring a civil action against the person or entity republishing or redisseminating the photograph if such person or entity was required to remove it from the publication or electronic medium; authorizing a court to impose a specified civil penalty; requiring a court to award reasonable attorney fees and court costs, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-132.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 1046 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1046/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1046 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1046/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1046 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1046/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1046 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1046/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bean — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-02-03** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-10** Referred to Criminal Justice; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/02/21, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2021-03-10** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/15/21, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-15** CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-16** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-17** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-18** CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
- **2021-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/25/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-25** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/07/21
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** Amendment(s) adopted (358892)
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-07** In Messages
- **2021-04-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2021)
- **2021-04-08** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-13** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 755
- **2021-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-13** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-132

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d84bdf0d-6fdd-428e-aade-38a054e33a72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).