Florida Senate - 2025 CS for SB 1168 By the Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; and Senator Leek 604-02783-25 20251168c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the installation or use of tracking 3 devices or applications; amending s. 934.425, F.S.; 4 providing enhanced criminal penalties for a person 5 who, to commit or facilitate the commission of a 6 dangerous crime, knowingly installs or places a 7 tracking device or tracking application on another 8 persons property without consent or uses such a 9 device or application to determine a persons or their 10 propertys location or movement without consent; 11 providing an effective date. 12 13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 14 15 Section 1.Subsection (5) of section 934.425, Florida 16 Statutes, is amended, and subsection (2) of that section is 17 republished, to read: 18 934.425Installation or use of tracking devices or tracking 19 applications; exceptions; penalties. 20 (2)Except as provided in subsection (4), a person may not 21 knowingly: 22 (a)Install or place a tracking device or tracking 23 application on another persons property without that persons 24 consent; or 25 (b)Use a tracking device or tracking application to 26 determine the location or movement of another person or another 27 persons property without that persons consent. 28 (5)(a)Except as provided in paragraph (b), a person who 29 violates this section commits a felony of the third degree, 30 punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. 31 (b)A person who violates this section to commit a 32 dangerous crime or to facilitate the commission of a dangerous 33 crime as defined in s. 907.041(5)(a) commits a felony of the 34 second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, 35 or s. 775.084. 36 Section 2.This act shall take effect October 1, 2025.