TALLAHASSEE – In the closing hours of this year’s legislative session, Florida lawmakers Friday handed a bill that would stop strippers less than age 21 from working in grownup amusement institutions.
Senators this week connected the stripper age restriction to a monthly bill (HB 7063) that would consider steps to attempt to suppress human trafficking.
The Property took up the amended bill Friday and handed it in a 104-3 vote.
Rep. David Borrero, R-Sweetwater, said sex trafficking can acquire location in strip golf equipment. “It truly is typical sense,” Borrero explained.
“We ought to be on the side of younger girls who are barely authorized.” But Rep. Michele Rayner, D-St. Petersburg, claimed lawmakers really should not “legislate values” and that younger ladies would be pulled into performing at personal events if they are barred from strip clubs.
“This is just one more way for women of all ages to be controlled,” said Rayner, who nonetheless voted for the invoice. Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, Rep. Yvonne Hinson, D-Gainesville, and Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Jacksonville, cast the dissenting votes. The monthly bill is all set to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
