---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human Trafficking Awareness"
description: "Human Trafficking Awareness; Requiring the Department of Education to identify a curriculum regarding human trafficking awareness; specifying required components of the curriculum; authorizing in-person or online training; requiring public schools to require that certain personnel have received certain training, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1237"
citation: "Florida HB 1237 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-65"
primary_sponsors: ["Booth", "Overdorf"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9c2a49c-babc-4497-9089-d6efca4f95ee"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1237/ByCategory"
source_hash: "83aaf91565b041f0a1b1f7e737b8fa073b7504419010807683c56ee701e4c550"
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 HB 1237 (2025) — Human Trafficking Awareness

Human Trafficking Awareness; Requiring the Department of Education to identify a curriculum regarding human trafficking awareness; specifying required components of the curriculum; authorizing in-person or online training; requiring public schools to require that certain personnel have received certain training, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-65.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1237 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1237/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1237 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1237/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1237 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1237/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 1237 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1237/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Booth — primary (person)
- Education & Employment Committee — primary (organization)
- Overdorf — primary (person)
- Benarroch — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Education Administration Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Now in Education Administration Subcommittee
- **2025-03-31** Added to Education Administration Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-04-02** Favorable by Education Administration Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Reported out of Education Administration Subcommittee
- **2025-04-02** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-04** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2025-04-08** Favorable with CS by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-08** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-08** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-08** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-24** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-24** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-28** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-28** Substituted for CS/SB 444
- **2025-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-28** Amendment(s) adopted (525618)
- **2025-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-28** In Messages
- **2025-04-30** Senate Message List
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 525618 Concur
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-22** Chapter No. 2025-65

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9c2a49c-babc-4497-9089-d6efca4f95ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).