Florida · Senate Bill 1312 · 2025 Regular Session

Crimes Evidencing Prejudice

SB 1312 Sponsored by Barbara Sharief Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 26, 2025
  2. In committee Mar 6, 2025
  3. Passed the Senate  
  4. Passed the House  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Crimes Evidencing Prejudice; Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts of prejudice based upon the gender of a victim; specifying that the reclassification occurs if the crime was based in whole or in part on the actual or perceived characteristics of the victim; revising the definition of the term “mental or physical disability”; defining the term “victim”, etc.

Every action

5 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy · Senate Criminal Justice
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  5. CommitteeDied in Criminal Justice · Senate Criminal Justice

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.