Florida SB 1750: Sexual Offenses

Bill Text

1750 
Sexual Offenses 
2026-02-26T08:21:37Z 
Revising a criteria related to the reclassification of specified offenses; revising mandatory minimum sentences for certain sexual offenses by persons previously convicted of sexual offenses; increasing the criminal penalties for a person who is guilty of the use of a child in a sexual performance under certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from employing, authorizing, or inducing a child younger than 12 years of age to engage in a sexual performance; providing criminal penalties for a person transmitting child pornography to another person, etc. 
Committee Substitute 1 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for SB 1750 

 By the Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; 
 and Senator Martin 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to sexual offenses; amending s. 
 3 775.0847, F.S.; revising a criteria related to the 
 4 reclassification of specified offenses; amending s. 
 5 794.0116, F.S.; revising mandatory minimum sentences 
 6 for certain sexual offenses by persons previously 
 7 convicted of sexual offenses; amending s. 827.071, 
 8 F.S.; increasing the criminal penalties for a person 
 9 who is guilty of the use of a child in a sexual 
 10 performance under certain circumstances; requiring 
 11 mandatory minimum sentences for certain offenses when 
 12 committed by specified offenders; prohibiting a person 
 13 from employing, authorizing, or inducing a child 
 14 younger than 12 years of age to engage in a sexual 
 15 performance; providing criminal penalties; requiring a 
 16 mandatory minimum sentence for a person who is guilty 
 17 of promoting a sexual performance by a child under 
 18 certain circumstances; increasing the criminal 
 19 penalties for knowingly soliciting, possessing, 
 20 controlling, or intentionally viewing certain 
 21 materials that include child pornography; providing 
 22 applicability of specified mandatory minimum 
 23 sentences; amending s. 827.072, F.S.; defining the 
 24 term “transmit”; providing criminal penalties for a 
 25 person transmitting child pornography to another 
 26 person; providing criminal penalties; increasing the 
 27 criminal penalties for intentionally creating 
 28 generated child pornography; amending s. 828.126, 
 29 F.S.; revising criminal penalties for certain sexual 
 30 activities involving animals; requiring a certain 
 31 court order to be effective for a certain number of 
 32 years; amending s. 847.011, F.S.; providing that 
 33 prosecution of a person for certain acts in connection 
 34 with obscene, lewd, etc., materials does not preclude 
 35 prosecution of that person for other specified 
 36 offenses; amending s. 847.0137, F.S.; defining terms; 
 37 increasing the criminal penalties for transmitting 
 38 child pornography; requiring mandatory minimum 
 39 sentences for certain offenses when committed by 
 40 specified offenders; prohibiting prosecution under 
 41 certain circumstances; providing applicability of 
 42 specified mandatory minimum sentences; amending s. 
 43 921.0022, F.S.; ranking offenses on the offense 
 44 severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment 
 45 Code; providing an effective date. 
 46 
 47 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 49 Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 775.0847, Florida 
 50 Statutes, is amended, and subsection (3) of that section is 
 51 republished, to read: 
 52 775.0847 Possession or promotion of certain images of child 
 53 pornography; reclassification.— 
 54 (2) A violation of s. 827.071, s. 847.0135, s. 847.0137, or 
 55 s. 847.0138 shall be reclassified to the next higher degree as 
 56 provided in subsection (3) if: 
 57 (a) The offender possesses 10 or more images of any form of 
 58 child pornography regardless of content; and 
 59 (b) The content of at least one image contains one or more 
 60 of the following: 
 61 1. A child who is younger than the age of 12 5. 
 62 2. Sadomasochistic abuse involving a child. 
 63 3. Sexual battery involving a child. 
 64 4. Sexual bestiality involving a child. 
 65 5. Any motion picture, film, video, or computer-generated 
 66 motion picture, film, or video involving a child, regardless of 
 67 length and regardless of whether the motion picture, film, 
 68 video, or computer-generated motion picture, film, or video 
 69 contains sound. 
 70 (3)(a) In the case of a felony of the third degree, the 
 71 offense is reclassified to a felony of the second degree. 
 72 (b) In the case of a felony of the second degree, the 
 73 offense is reclassified to a felony of the first degree. 
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 75 For purposes of sentencing under chapter 921 and determining 
 76 incentive gain-time eligibility under chapter 944, a felony 
 77 offense that is reclassified under this section is ranked one 
 78 level above the ranking under s. 921.0022 or s. 921.0023 of the 
 79 offense committed. 
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