SB 1208 Summary

• Expands the definition of "sexual battery" to include intentional touching in a lewd or lascivious manner on breasts, genitals, genital area, or buttocks, or clothing covering such areas, in addition to existing penetration-based offenses.

• Defines "disabled person" for lewd or lascivious offense laws to include minors with physical or mental incapacitation due to developmental disability, organic brain damage, mental illness, or limitations restricting daily living activities.

• Expands relocation assistance eligibility from only sexual battery victims to victims of any felony violation under chapter 800 (lewd or lascivious offenses) or specified human trafficking offenses, maintaining $1,500 one-time and $3,000 lifetime maximum payments.

• Increases the Crime Victims' Services Office payment cap for initial forensic physical examinations from $500 to $700 for victims of sexual battery or lewd or lascivious offenses.

• Reenacts numerous cross-referencing statutes throughout Florida law to incorporate amendments to sexual battery and lewd or lascivious offense definitions affecting registration requirements, sentencing, victim protections, and criminal procedures.