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FloridaHB 7572025House

Sexual Images

Sponsored By: Mike Redondo (Republican)

Signed by Governor

AppropriationCriminal Justice SubcommitteeJudiciary CommitteeHouse CalendarFiscal Policy

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Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.

Image victims can seek civil damages

Beginning October 1, 2025, people harmed by qualifying altered sexual images made or maliciously promoted without consent can sue. Available damages are $10,000 or actual damages, whichever is greater. Courts can also order the conduct stopped and award reasonable attorney fees and court costs.

Offense rankings guide sentencing after conviction

Beginning October 1, 2025, Florida assigns specified crimes to Levels 2 and 3 in its sentencing chart. Soliciting an altered sexual image without consent is Level 2. Generating, maliciously promoting, or possessing one with intent to maliciously promote it is Level 3. The new lewd-image solicitation, possession, control, and intentional-viewing offense is also Level 3. The revised chart also covers listed property, fraud, environmental, driving, boating, insurance, computer, drug, and public-safety crimes. These rankings guide sentencing calculations after conviction; they are not fixed prison terms.

New felonies target altered sexual images

Beginning October 1, 2025, Florida expands protections against altered sexual images of identifiable people made or sought without consent. Willfully creating such an image is a third-degree felony; a disclaimer saying the person did not participate is no defense. Soliciting one is also a third-degree felony when the requester knows or reasonably should know it was altered. The law also covers possessing one with intent to maliciously promote it, extending the existing third-degree felony for malicious promotion. That offense requires lack of consent and knowledge, or reasonable grounds to know, that the image was altered.

Stronger criminal protections for children's images

Beginning October 1, 2025, Florida adds criminal protections against real or altered images showing prohibited lewd exhibitions involving children. Altered images include exhibitions portrayed as occurring before an identifiable child under 16; proof of the child's actual identity is unnecessary. Possessing covered images to promote them is a second-degree felony; three or more copies count as evidence of that intent. Knowingly soliciting, possessing, controlling, or intentionally viewing covered lewd images is a third-degree felony. Knowingly soliciting child pornography is also a third-degree felony; each presentation and each child depicted support separate charges under these prohibitions. The solicitation, possession, control, and viewing prohibitions exclude material handled as part of a law enforcement investigation. Courts can consider an image's full content, the child's age, genital focus, setting, pose, clothing, sexual cues, and intended sexual response. Charges under the new lewd-image law do not prevent prosecution under other Florida laws.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Mike Redondo

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Criminal Justice Subcommittee

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Judiciary Committee

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Jennifer Kincart Jonsson

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 152 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/24/2025

Senate Floor Vote

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 4/23/2025

House Floor Vote

Yes: 115 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter No. 2025-99

    5/28/2025

  2. Approved by Governor

    5/27/2025

  3. Signed by Officers and presented to Governor

    5/23/2025

  4. Ordered enrolled

    4/24/2025House

  5. In Messages

    4/24/2025House

  6. CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 -SJ 532

    4/24/2025Senate

  7. Read 3rd time -SJ 532

    4/24/2025Senate

  8. Read 2nd time -SJ 532

    4/24/2025Senate

  9. Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 1180 -SJ 532

    4/24/2025Senate

  10. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

    4/24/2025Senate

  11. Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy -SJ 532

    4/24/2025Senate

  12. Received

    4/23/2025Senate

  13. Referred to Fiscal Policy

    4/23/2025Senate

  14. In Messages

    4/23/2025Senate

  15. CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0

    4/23/2025House

  16. Read 3rd time

    4/23/2025House

  17. Added to Third Reading Calendar

    4/23/2025House

  18. Placed on 3rd reading

    4/23/2025House

  19. Read 2nd time

    4/23/2025House

  20. Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)

    4/17/2025House

  21. 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)

    4/3/2025House

  22. Added to Second Reading Calendar

    4/3/2025House

  23. Bill referred to House Calendar

    4/3/2025House

  24. CS Filed

    4/2/2025House

  25. Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)

    4/2/2025House

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