SB 1660 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Prostitution and Related Acts

Summary

Prostitution and Related Acts; Prohibiting adults from offering to commit, committing, or engaging in prostitution, lewdness, or assignation; repealing a provision relating to forcing, compelling, or coercing another to become a prostitute; prohibiting persons from owning, establishing, maintaining, operating, using, letting, or renting a building, residence, place, or structure, in whole or in part, or a trailer or any other conveyance, when such person knows or should have known that it will be used for the purpose of commercial sex, etc.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 10, 2025 Last action Jun 16, 2025

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S 1660 Filed → S 1660 c1 · 7 edits

MODERATE

This bill updates Florida's prostitution and sex trafficking laws by clarifying definitions, adjusting penalties, and adding mandatory educational requirements. It removes the old statute on forcing someone into prostitution and expands the scope of prohibited acts to include broader commercial sex activities. The changes aim to better protect victims and increase accountability for offenders.

Scope change

The bill expands the scope of prohibited activities from specific prostitution acts to broader commercial sex activities and removes the repealed statute on coercion into prostitution.

DEFINITION

Updated definitions to clarify 'commercial sex' and 'prostitution' to include broader activities and remove outdated language.

ENFORCEMENT

Changed penalties for prostitution-related offenses, including reclassifying some offenses from misdemeanors to felonies for repeat violations.

Added vehicle impoundment provisions and driver license revocation requirements for repeat offenders involving motor vehicles.

REQUIREMENT

Added mandatory educational program requirements for convicted offenders and enhanced requirements for massage establishment licenses.

SCOPE

Repealed the statute relating to forcing, compelling, or coercing another to become a prostitute.

FISCAL

Established civil penalties with proceeds directed to drug court programs and safe houses for victims.

TIMELINE

Set the effective date of the act to October 1, 2025.

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Committee

Mar 26, 2025

Upper · Passed

Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

upper

Mar 26, 2025

Upper · Passed

Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

upper

Mar 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building

upper

Mar 10, 2025

Introduced

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Committee

Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors