---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human Trafficking"
description: "Human Trafficking; Providing that a communication between a human trafficking victim advocate or trained volunteer and a human trafficking victim is confidential in certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from engaging in specified criminal acts relating to human trafficking with an adult believed to be a child younger than 18 years of age; prohibiting a clerk of the court from charging certain fees for petitions for expunction of human trafficking victim criminal history records; requiring a court to impose specified conditions on probationers or community controllees who are placed under supervision for committing a specified human trafficking offense on or after a certain date, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1826"
citation: "Florida SB 1826 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["evidence"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-189"
primary_sponsors: ["Diaz"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-26"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b4b2797-04a6-4845-a7ee-05dd2a3af483"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1826/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0ea84a6b96781d2ebb58ce3109dd7f877762d76bbe46f5ab0c3d1bfce3100568"
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 1826 (2021) — Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking; Providing that a communication between a human trafficking victim advocate or trained volunteer and a human trafficking victim is confidential in certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from engaging in specified criminal acts relating to human trafficking with an adult believed to be a child younger than 18 years of age; prohibiting a clerk of the court from charging certain fees for petitions for expunction of human trafficking victim criminal history records; requiring a court to impose specified conditions on probationers or community controllees who are placed under supervision for committing a specified human trafficking offense on or after a certain date, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-189.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1826 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1826/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1826 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1826/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1826 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1826/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1826 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1826/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1826 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1826/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 1826 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1826/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **15–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- CS/CS/SB 1826 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Diaz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-26** Filed `filing`
- **2021-03-04** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Criminal Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-11** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/16/21, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-16** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Now in Criminal Justice
- **2021-03-18** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/23/21, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-23** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-24** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-25** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-25** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2021-04-01** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/06/21, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-06** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 1
- **2021-04-08** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-08** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-04-09** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-09** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/14/21
- **2021-04-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-14** Amendment(s) adopted (850610, 970458) -SJ 435, 436
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-14** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-14** In Messages
- **2021-04-19** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-19** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/22/2021)
- **2021-04-19** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-20** Amendment 365013 filed
- **2021-04-22** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 523
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Amendment 365013 adopted
- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-22** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-23** CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-23** In returning messages
- **2021-04-23** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-27** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (365013)
- **2021-04-27** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-189

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b4b2797-04a6-4845-a7ee-05dd2a3af483`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).