CS/CS/HB 757 (2025): Sexual Images

Record US-FL-06 · Laws of Florida ch. 2025-99 (CS/CS/HB 757, 2025)

Issued by: Florida Legislature (2025 Regular Session; sponsors Judiciary Committee, Criminal Justice Subcommittee and Reps. Redondo and Kincart Jonsson); approved by the Governor
Jurisdiction: Florida (US)
Level · region: Sub-national · North America
Country: United States
Published / adopted: 2025-05-27
In force: 2025-10-01
Language: English
Official identifier: Laws of Florida ch. 2025-99 (CS/CS/HB 757, 2025)

Summary

Makes it a felony to possess lewd or lascivious images with intent to promote them or to knowingly solicit, possess or intentionally view them, including images modified by electronic or other means to show lewd exhibition in the presence of an identifiable minor, and to solicit child pornography. Under Florida's altered-sexual-depiction statute, willfully generating such a depiction of an identifiable person without consent, by computer-generated or other means, soliciting one, or possessing one to maliciously promote it becomes a third-degree felony. Victims may sue those who generate one or possess one to promote it for injunctive relief, USD 10,000 or actual damages, and attorney fees.

Safety topics

deepfakes & synthetic mediachild safetyaccountability & liability

Scope

Borderline scope Existing scope_note kept: not AI-specific, included for the generation offence.

Status notes

Passed the House 115-0 on 23 Apr 2025 and the Senate 37-0 on 24 Apr 2025, where it was substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 1180; approved by the Governor on 27 May 2025 and effective 1 Oct 2025. 'Generate' means to create, alter, adapt or modify any image by electronic, mechanical or other computer-generated means to portray an identifiable person, or to offer or agree to do so. The generation and possession offences are ranked as Level 3 and the solicitation offence as Level 2 on the offense severity ranking chart. The law amends s. 836.13, F.S., the altered-sexual-depiction offence created in 2022 by CS/CS/SB 1798, and also sets criteria for when an image shows lewd exhibition of a minor's genitals for the purposes of the child pornography statute. Section 836.13 was also amended by ch. 2025-133 (Brooke's Law) and in 2026 by ch. 2026-14, ch. 2026-18 and ch. 2026-20; in the 2026 Florida Statutes the generation, solicitation and possession offences are subsections (2) to (4) and the civil action is subsection (7).

Sources

Open the official source https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/757

Secondary source: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/757/Analyses/h0757z1.CRM.PDF

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 23:07:53 UTC

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Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched

Recheck of 18 Oct 2026: re-read the Florida Senate bill page for HB 757 (2025) and the two House staff analyses linked from it, stored on 14 Oct 2026 from flsenate.gov (the archiver found them unchanged on 17 Oct 2026), and the 2026 Florida Statutes page for s. 836.13, stored in this run. The bill page confirms the title, sponsors, history, floor votes (115-0 and 37-0), approval by the Governor on 27 May 2025, Chapter No. 2025-99, the 1 Oct 2025 effective date and the statutes cited (ss. 800.045, 827.071, 836.13 and 921.0022); the House final bill analysis of 30 May 2025 confirms approval, chapter and effective date and describes the enacted provisions, on which the summary rests. The summary now says that the civil action lies against those who generate a depiction or possess one with intent to promote it, not against every possessor; s. 836.13(7) in the 2026 statute confirms this. The statute page shows the offences this law added still in force and a history note citing ch. 2025-133, ch. 2026-14, ch. 2026-18 and ch. 2026-20 after this law; it does not show which subsections the 2026 laws changed, and ss. 800.045, 827.071 and 921.0022 were not stored, so date_last_updated stays empty. The enrolled bill text was not stored.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 9 field(s) supported, fixes applied to scope_note.

History

2026-10-18scope_note: Not an AI-specific law: mainly a law on sexual images of minors and child pornog → Existing scope_note kept: not AI-specific, included for the generation offence. — pipeline run 2026-10-18-recheck-north-america-2 (recheck), candidate US-FL-062026-10-18-recheck-north-america-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18notes: Passed the House 115-0 on 23 Apr 2025 and the Senate 37-0 on 24 Apr 2025, where → Passed the House 115-0 on 23 Apr 2025 and the Senate 37-0 on 24 Apr 2025, where — one sentence added: later amendments of s. 836.13 (ch. 2025-133 and three 2026 chapter laws) and where the offences and civil action this law added now sit in the 2026 Florida Statutes2026-10-18-recheck-north-america-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18summary: Creates felonies for possessing with intent to promote, and for soliciting, poss → Makes it a felony to possess lewd or lascivious images with intent to promote th — the civil action lies only against those who willfully generate a depiction or possess one with intent to maliciously promote it (House final analysis, page 3); the old wording 'generators and possessors' overstated it. The felony list now follows the analysis wording (knowingly solicit, possess or intentionally view), and the image definition says 'in the presence of an identifiable minor' instead of 'digitally created images of identifiable minors'2026-10-18-recheck-north-america-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-14Added to the register — found in pipeline run 2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl, candidate C005 (US-FL/legislature)2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Florida SB 1798 (2022): altered sexual depictions offence Florida (US) · In force

Brooke's Law (Florida HB 1161, 2025) Florida (US) · In force

Florida HB 1159 (2026): sexual offences and generated CSAM Florida (US) · In force

Citation

Florida Legislature (2025 Regular Session; sponsors Judiciary Committee, Criminal Justice Subcommittee and Reps. Redondo and Kincart Jonsson); approved by the Governor. CS/CS/HB 757 (2025): Sexual Images [Laws of Florida ch. 2025-99 (CS/CS/HB 757, 2025)]. 2025-05-27. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/757. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/_runs/2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl/C005/2026-10-14/official.html retrieved 2026-10-14 15:56:46 UTC, SHA-256 1f08bae327637d82985c5d1633aff95935e46a0e04b32027a6dec5fe01c1522c. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record US-FL-06.

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