---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sexually Related Offenses"
description: "Sexually Related Offenses; Increasing the monetary damages that an aggrieved person may receive as a result of violations relating to sexual cyberharassment; revising the prohibition on sexual activities with animals; prohibiting the willful and malicious promotion of certain sexual depictions without consent; prohibiting a person from committing theft of sexually explicit images with the intent to promote such images, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1798"
citation: "Florida SB 1798 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["judicial branch", "labor", "public business"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-212"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Book", "Criminal Justice"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-07"
last_action: "2022-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e13478c2-5278-4f0b-8abc-d9f7fdb71500"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1798/ByCategory"
source_hash: "bdd6034ca6d3c37bf318a8086a2fc28ab3cc6e2385972e508a207e774d1dc5ad"
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 1798 (2022) — Sexually Related Offenses

Sexually Related Offenses; Increasing the monetary damages that an aggrieved person may receive as a result of violations relating to sexual cyberharassment; revising the prohibition on sexual activities with animals; prohibiting the willful and malicious promotion of certain sexual depictions without consent; prohibiting a person from committing theft of sexually explicit images with the intent to promote such images, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-212.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1798 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1798/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1798 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1798/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1798 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1798/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1798 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1798/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1798 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1798/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Book — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-07** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Criminal Justice; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/25/22, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-25** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-26** Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- **2022-01-26** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2022-02-03** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/08/22, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-02-08** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-08** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/28/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-28** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2022-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
- **2022-03-02** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Amendment(s) adopted (266094)
- **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-03** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-27** Chapter No. 2022-212

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e13478c2-5278-4f0b-8abc-d9f7fdb71500`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).