Florida · Senate Bill 450 · 2025 Regular Session

Crimes Evidencing Prejudice

SB 450 Sponsored by Lori Berman Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 3, 2025
  2. In committee Feb 10, 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.

Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts based on the gender or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on specified characteristics of any person; specifying that the reclassification of a certain crime must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on a disability of any person, 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 SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration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 (leg.state.fl.us; flhouse.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.