---
type: "Bill"
title: "Indecent, Lewd, or Lascivious Touching"
description: "Indecent, Lewd, or Lascivious Touching; Defining conduct prohibited as indecent, lewd, or lascivious touching of certain minors; ranking the offense on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 444"
citation: "Florida SB 444 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes", "criminal procedure and corrections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-164"
primary_sponsors: ["Children, Families, and Elder Affairs", "Perry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-10-12"
last_action: "2022-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97139dba-48be-4f2e-b7bc-74c6b3764dfc"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/444/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8c44b1f7a781bd995e25fca2deed3be22f90eb45054fa2ea2f33234c8334242d"
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 444 (2022) — Indecent, Lewd, or Lascivious Touching

Indecent, Lewd, or Lascivious Touching; Defining conduct prohibited as indecent, lewd, or lascivious touching of certain minors; ranking the offense on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-164.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 444 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/444/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 444 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/444/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 444 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/444/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 444 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/444/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-12** Filed `filing`
- **2021-10-21** Referred to Criminal Justice; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 11/30/21, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-11-30** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-30** Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
- **2022-01-06** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/11/22, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-12** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/20/22, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-18** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2022-01-20** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-01-31** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/03/22
- **2022-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2022-02-03** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-03** 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 (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Amendment 568773 adopted
- **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 as amended; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** In returning messages
- **2022-03-10** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (568773)
- **2022-03-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2022-05-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-03** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-06** Chapter No. 2022-164

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97139dba-48be-4f2e-b7bc-74c6b3764dfc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).