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Bill	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.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	SB 1804	Florida SB 1804 (2025)	bill	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	enacted	2025-156	Martin	5	34	5	2025-02-28	2025-06-23	openstates	ocd-bill/9ebf3eb2-2657-4101-b68e-81c9c8cb8bce	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1804/ByCategory	7c75c8b80c145377d320b8dee216090a8ee6b97e079565a34b32b765634035d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. S 1804 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 1804 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 1804 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 1804 er (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/9ebf3eb2-2657-4101-b68e-81c9c8cb8bce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).