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FL HB 317

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Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses; Prohibits use of nonviolent sexual advance or specified perceptions or beliefs about another person as defense to criminal offense, to excuse or justify person's conduct, or to mitigate severity of offense.

Introduced
Status date
Latest action
2026-03-13 — Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Harrisprimary
  • Rosenwaldcosponsor
  • Campbellcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-11-04

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2025-11-12

    Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee

    referral-committee

  3. 2025-11-12

    Referred to Judiciary Committee

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-11-12

    Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee

  5. 2026-01-13

    1st Reading (Original Filed Version)

    filing,reading-1

  6. 2026-03-13

    Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

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Attribution

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