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Florida · 2025 Regular Session

S0450 Crimes Evidencing Prejudice

Direction

Transgender otherAI label

Expands transgender recognition & access model confidence 90%

Expands hate crime reclassification and data collection to include crimes based on gender identity, increasing legal protections and recognition for transgender people.

expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts based on the gender or gender identity of any person;

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Status: Failed

Last action
2025-06-16: Died in Criminal Justice
Filed
2025-02-03
Sponsor
Lori Berman D

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds gender and gender identity as protected characteristics for hate crime sentence enhancements and data reporting, and provides a statutory definition of gender identity that recognizes it may differ from assigned sex at birth. These changes expand legal recognition and protections for transgender people under bias-crime laws. No provisions address firearms, abortion, or immigration enforcement.

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History (5 actions)
DateChamberAction
2025-06-16SDied in Criminal Justice
2025-05-03SIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2025-03-04SIntroduced
2025-02-10SReferred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
2025-02-03SFiled