CS/HB 1179 Summary

• Creates registration fees for sheriffs to charge sexual predators ($200 maximum), sexual offenders ($100 maximum), career offenders ($50 maximum), and convicted felons ($25 maximum) annually, with fees used solely for law enforcement and criminal prosecution purposes.

• Establishes "serious sexual felony offender" designation for registered sexual offenders or predators who commit specified felonies on or after October 1, 2016, requiring a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence with no eligibility for gain-time or early release.

• Expands the definition of "sexual offender" to include persons convicted of specified prostitution-related offenses and requires registration under Florida's sexual offender registration statutes.

• Imposes comprehensive sex offender probation and community control conditions including mandatory curfews, residency restrictions, treatment program participation, polygraph examinations, electronic monitoring, and prohibitions on contact with minors and certain locations near schools and parks.

• Requires probationers and community controllees under this section to be supervised by Department of Corrections officers with caseloads of no more than 30 offenders; effective October 1, 2016.