· FL legislature · 2025

Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses

Gay and Transgender Panic Legal Defenses; Prohibits individuals from using nonviolent sexual advance or specified perceptions or beliefs about another individual as defense to criminal offense, to excuse or justify conduct of an individual who commits criminal offense, or to mitigate severity of criminal offense.

Sponsor

Rita Harris (D-FL)

Introduced

2025-02-26

Policy area

Crime and Law Enforcement

Latest action

Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee