2024 Regular Session • Florida Legislature
S0156: Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses
Legislative Summary
Citing this act as the "Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses Prohibition Act"; prohibiting individuals from using a nonviolent sexual advance or specified perceptions or beliefs about another individual as a defense to a criminal offense, to excuse or justify an individual's conduct, or to mitigate the severity of an offense, etc.
Bill History
10/10/2023
Filed
Senate
10/17/2023
Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules
Senate
1/9/2024
Introduced
Senate
3/8/2024
Died in Criminal Justice
Senate
Status Information
Current Status
Failed(3/8/2024)
Chamber
Senate
Sine DiePrior Session
Sponsors
Democrat: 1
Primary Sponsor

Lauren Book
Democrat