FL S0166

Expands the definition of "coercion" under Florida's human trafficking statute to include withholding earned income, providing alcohol or any drug (not just Schedule I or II controlled substances), and changes the definition from an exhaustive list to a non-exhaustive one

Prohibits facilitating or enabling the receiving of persons into any place for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness, or assignation, and prohibits knowingly recruiting, harboring, or procuring persons for prostitution while financially benefiting from such activity

Makes owning, establishing, maintaining, or operating a place for prostitution a third-degree felony on first offense and a second-degree felony on second or subsequent offense, replacing the prior graduated misdemeanor-to-felony penalty structure

Creates a new second-degree felony for knowingly or in reckless disregard soliciting, recruiting, harboring, enticing, purchasing, or procuring another person for prostitution while financially benefiting from the activity

Removes the separate penalty reclassification provisions specific to massage establishments used for prostitution and conforms cross-references in massage therapist licensing and the Soliciting for Prostitution Public Database statutes, with an effective date of October 1, 2023