---
type: "Bill"
title: "Offenses Involving Children"
description: "Offenses Involving Children; Provides that ignorance of victim's age, misrepresentation of victim's age, & bona fide belief concerning victim's age are not defenses to certain offenses in which victim's age is an element of offense; provides an exception; revises age of victim involved in luring or enticing offenses; prohibits a person from luring or enticing victim out of a structure, dwelling, or conveyance for other than a lawful purpose, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 777"
citation: "Florida HB 777 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-132"
primary_sponsors: ["Plakon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d45e753-3540-4229-9a37-4457f900545d"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/777/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d1eb2c0249b15d480e7bec152868e1e412318875129dcdb2d0a15081f990fbbc"
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 777 (2025) — Offenses Involving Children

Offenses Involving Children; Provides that ignorance of victim's age, misrepresentation of victim's age, & bona fide belief concerning victim's age are not defenses to certain offenses in which victim's age is an element of offense; provides an exception; revises age of victim involved in luring or enticing offenses; prohibits a person from luring or enticing victim out of a structure, dwelling, or conveyance for other than a lawful purpose, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-132.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 777 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/777/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 777 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/777/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 777 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/777/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 777 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/777/BillText/e2/PDF)
5. **H 777 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/777/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **111–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- Plakon — primary (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Redondo — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Weinberger — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-19** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-10** Added to Criminal Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-12** Favorable by Criminal Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Reported out of Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- **2025-03-12** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2025-03-24** PCS added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2025-03-26** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2025-03-27** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-27** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-27** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-03** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/9/2025)
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Amendment 299921 adopted
- **2025-04-09** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-10** In Messages
- **2025-04-10** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-24** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-24** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1136
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Amendment(s) adopted (871024)
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-30** Senate Message List
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 871024 Concur
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-06** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Chapter No. 2025-132

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d45e753-3540-4229-9a37-4457f900545d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).