Bill Text: FL H0799 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Victim Advocate Services

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on State Universities & Private Colleges Policy (EPC) [H0799 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0799-Introduced.html

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HB 799

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to victim advocate services; creating s.
3	1006.671, F.S.; requiring that each postsecondary
4	educational institution provide an advocate to assist
5	students who are victims of violent crime; requiring that
6	the advocate complete a specified number of hours in
7	victim advocacy training and enlist the assistance of
8	public and voluntary health, education, welfare, and
9	rehabilitation agencies or groups and law enforcement
10	agencies; requiring that an advocate be made available on
11	any campus that provides student housing or has a minimum
12	number of full-time students; providing an effective date.
13
14	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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16	Section 1. Section 1006.671, Florida Statutes, is created
17	to read:
18	1006.671 Victim advocate services.-Each postsecondary
19	educational institution shall provide an advocate to aid
20	students who are victims of violent crime. The victim advocate
21	must have completed at least 30 hours of victim advocacy
22	training and shall enlist the assistance of public and voluntary
23	health, education, welfare, and rehabilitation agencies or
24	groups and law enforcement agencies in coordinating services. An
25	advocate must be made available on any campus that provides
26	student housing or has 10,000 or more full-time students.
27	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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