Florida Senate Bill 556 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on May 5 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-05-05 - Died in Criminal Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 494 (Ch. 2017-120)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Providing that a person is disqualified from receiving compensation under the Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act if, before or during the person's wrongful conviction and incarceration, the person was convicted of, or pled guilty or nolo contendere to, any violent felony; specifying that a wrongfully incarcerated person who is released from wrongful incarceration to parole or community supervision and who commits a violent felony, rather than a felony law violation, resulting in revocation of the parole or community supervision is ineligible for compensation, etc.

Compensation of Victims of Wrongful Incarceration

Sen. Randolph Bracy [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-05	Senate	Died in Criminal Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 494 (Ch. 2017-120)
2017-05-05	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2017-03-07	Senate	Introduced
2017-02-09	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Appropriations
2017-01-27	Senate	Filed

H0393 (Same As) 2017-05-02 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 494 (Ch. 2017-120)
S0494 (Same As) 2017-06-19 - Chapter No. 2017-120

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
961	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
961	03		Amended Code	See Bill Text
961	04		Amended Code	See Bill Text
961	05		Amended Code	See Bill Text
961	055		Amended Code	See Bill Text
961	056		Amended Code	See Bill Text
961	06		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/556
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0556/BillText/Filed/HTML