--- type: "Bill" title: "Capital Human Trafficking of Vulnerable Persons for Sexual Exploitation" description: "Capital Human Trafficking of Vulnerable Persons for Sexual Exploitation; Specifying that a defendant’s memorialized confession or admission in cases of capital human trafficking of vulnerable persons for sexual exploitation is admissible during trial under specified circumstances; requiring that an offender who is convicted of committing capital human trafficking of vulnerable persons for sexual exploitation be designated as a sexual predator; prohibiting a person 18 years of age or older from knowingly initiating, organizing, planning, financing, directing, managing, or supervising a venture that has subjected a child younger than 12 years of age, or a person who is mentally defective or mentally incapacitated, to human trafficking for sexual exploitation, etc." jurisdiction: "us/states/fl" legislature: "Florida Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "SB 1804" citation: "Florida SB 1804 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["and solicitations", "civil practice and procedure", "crimes", "electors and elections", "evidence", "executive branch", "judicial branch", "labor", "motor vehicles", "public health", "regulation of professions and occupations"] status: "enacted" chapter_law: "2025-156" primary_sponsors: ["Martin"] version_count: 5 action_count: 34 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2025-02-28" last_action: "2025-06-23" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ebf3eb2-2657-4101-b68e-81c9c8cb8bce" source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1804/ByCategory" source_hash: "7c75c8b80c145377d320b8dee216090a8ee6b97e079565a34b32b765634035d2" 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 1804 (2025) — Capital Human Trafficking of Vulnerable Persons for Sexual Exploitation Capital Human Trafficking of Vulnerable Persons for Sexual Exploitation; Specifying that a defendant’s memorialized confession or admission in cases of capital human trafficking of vulnerable persons for sexual exploitation is admissible during trial under specified circumstances; requiring that an offender who is convicted of committing capital human trafficking of vulnerable persons for sexual exploitation be designated as a sexual predator; prohibiting a person 18 years of age or older from knowingly initiating, organizing, planning, financing, directing, managing, or supervising a venture that has subjected a child younger than 12 years of age, or a person who is mentally defective or mentally incapacitated, to human trafficking for sexual exploitation, etc. **Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-156. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **S 1804 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1804/BillText/Filed/HTML) 2. **S 1804 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1804/BillText/c1/HTML) 3. **S 1804 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1804/BillText/c2/HTML) 4. **S 1804 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1804/BillText/e1/HTML) 5. **S 1804 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1804/BillText/er/HTML) ## Votes - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **15–4** (pass) · upper - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–4** (pass) · upper - Passage, Third Reading — **95–17** (pass) · lower - Favorable — **7–1** (pass) · upper - Third Reading — **27–11** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization) - Fiscal Policy — primary (organization) - Martin — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-28** Filed `filing` - **2025-03-07** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee` - **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction` - **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 04/01/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building - **2025-04-01** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-04-01** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice - **2025-04-10** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 04/15/25, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building - **2025-04-15** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 4 - **2025-04-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2025-04-17** Now in Fiscal Policy - **2025-04-17** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/22/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building - **2025-04-22** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time - **2025-04-22** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 15 NAYS 4 - **2025-04-23** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2025-04-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading - **2025-04-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/25 - **2025-04-24** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time - **2025-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2025-04-28** Amendment(s) adopted (658524) - **2025-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2025-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 27 NAYS 11 `passage` - **2025-04-28** In Messages - **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar - **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025) - **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1` - **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3` - **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar - **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2025-04-30** CS passed; YEAS 95, NAYS 17 `passage` - **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled` - **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature` - **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-156 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ebf3eb2-2657-4101-b68e-81c9c8cb8bce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).