Bill Text: FL H0183 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Special Investigators

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-27 - Placed on Special Order Calendar; Substituted SB 502; Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 502 (Ch. 2010-119) -HJ 01166 [H0183 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0183-Comm_Sub.html

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CS/HB 183

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to special investigators; amending s.
3	27.251, F.S.; deleting a requirement that investigators be
4	employed on a full-time basis; specifying matters that may
5	be investigated by special investigators; providing an
6	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 27.251, Florida Statutes, is amended to
11	read:
12	27.251 Special organized crime investigators.-The state
13	attorney of each judicial circuit is authorized to employ any
14	municipal or county police officer or sheriff's deputy on a
15	full-time basis as an investigator for the state attorney's
16	office with full powers of arrest throughout the judicial
17	circuit provided such investigator serves on a special task
18	force to investigate matters involving criminal activity the
19	detection of which might benefit from a special task force
20	organized crime, and, provided further, that the salary of such
21	municipal or county police officer or sheriff's deputy shall be
22	paid by the city, county, or sheriff by which the investigator
23	is principally employed, and with the consent of the county,
24	sheriff, or municipality. The arrest powers granted in this
25	section may herein shall be exercised only in the furtherance of
26	the conduct of the business of the special task force to which
27	such municipal or county police officer or sheriff's deputy is
28	assigned by the said state attorney.
29	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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