Bill Text: FL H0365 | 2011 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Concealed Weapons or Firearms Licenses

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H0365 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H0365-Comm_Sub.html

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CS/HB 365

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to concealed weapons or firearms licenses;
3	amending s. 790.06, F.S.; providing an exemption from
4	certain restrictions for licensees holding specified state
5	and county offices; providing an effective date.
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7	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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9	Section 1.  Subsection (12) of section 790.06, Florida
10	Statutes, is amended to read:
11	790.06  License to carry concealed weapon or firearm.-
12	(12)  No license issued pursuant to this section shall
13	authorize any person to carry a concealed weapon or firearm into
14	any place of nuisance as defined in s. 823.05; any police,
15	sheriff, or highway patrol station; any detention facility,
16	prison, or jail; any courthouse; any courtroom, except that
17	nothing in this section would preclude a judge from carrying a
18	concealed weapon or determining who will carry a concealed
19	weapon in his or her courtroom; any polling place; any meeting
20	of the governing body of a county, public school district,
21	municipality, or special district; any meeting of the
22	Legislature or a committee thereof; any school, college, or
23	professional athletic event not related to firearms; any school
24	administration building; any portion of an establishment
25	licensed to dispense alcoholic beverages for consumption on the
26	premises, which portion of the establishment is primarily
27	devoted to such purpose; any elementary or secondary school
28	facility; any career center; any college or university facility
29	unless the licensee is a registered student, employee, or
30	faculty member of such college or university and the weapon is a
31	stun gun or nonlethal electric weapon or device designed solely
32	for defensive purposes and the weapon does not fire a dart or
33	projectile; inside the passenger terminal and sterile area of
34	any airport, provided that no person shall be prohibited from
35	carrying any legal firearm into the terminal, which firearm is
36	encased for shipment for purposes of checking such firearm as
37	baggage to be lawfully transported on any aircraft; or any place
38	where the carrying of firearms is prohibited by federal law.
39	Nothing in this subsection would preclude a state legislator,
40	county commissioner, school board member, state attorney, public
41	defender, or county constitutional officer who holds a license
42	pursuant to this section from carrying a concealed weapon in a
43	meeting of the governing body of which he or she is a member.
44	Any person who willfully violates any provision of this
45	subsection commits a misdemeanor of the second degree,
46	punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
47	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.