| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to sexual activities involving animals; |
| 3 | creating s. 828.126, F.S.; providing definitions; |
| 4 | prohibiting knowing sexual conduct or sexual contact with |
| 5 | an animal; prohibiting specified related activities; |
| 6 | providing penalties; providing an effective date. |
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| 8 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 10 | Section 1. Section 828.126, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 11 | to read: |
| 12 | 828.126 Sexual activities involving animals.-- |
| 13 | (1) For purposes of this section, the term: |
| 14 | (a) "Sexual conduct" means any touching or fondling by a |
| 15 | person, either directly or through clothing, of the sex organs |
| 16 | or anus of an animal or any transfer or transmission of semen by |
| 17 | the person upon any part of the animal for the purpose of sexual |
| 18 | gratification or arousal of the person. |
| 19 | (b) "Sexual contact" means any contact, however slight, |
| 20 | between the mouth, sex organ, or anus of a person and the sex |
| 21 | organ or anus of an animal, or any penetration, however slight, |
| 22 | of any part of the body of the person into the sex organ or anus |
| 23 | of an animal, or any penetration of the sex organ or anus of the |
| 24 | person into the mouth of the animal, for the purpose of sexual |
| 25 | gratification or sexual arousal of the person. |
| 26 | (c) "Photographs" or "films" means the making of a |
| 27 | photograph, motion picture film, videotape, digital image, or |
| 28 | any other visual recording. |
| 29 | (2) A person who: |
| 30 | (a) Knowingly engages in any sexual conduct or sexual |
| 31 | contact with an animal; |
| 32 | (b) Knowingly causes, aids, or abets another person to |
| 33 | engage in any sexual conduct or sexual contact with an animal; |
| 34 | (c) Knowingly permits any sexual conduct or sexual contact |
| 35 | with an animal to be conducted on any premises under his or her |
| 36 | charge or control; |
| 37 | (d) Knowingly engages in organizing, promoting, |
| 38 | conducting, advertising, aiding, abetting, participating in as |
| 39 | an observer, or performing any service in the furtherance of an |
| 40 | act involving any sexual conduct or sexual contact with an |
| 41 | animal for a commercial or recreational purpose; or |
| 42 | (e) Knowingly photographs or films, for the purposes of |
| 43 | sexual gratification, a person engaged in any sexual conduct or |
| 44 | sexual contact with an animal, or knowingly sells or transmits |
| 45 | such a photograph or film |
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| 47 | commits a felony of the first degree, punishable as provided in |
| 48 | s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. |
| 49 | Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2008. |