Bill Text: FL S0632 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Funerals, Burials, and Memorial Services

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 17-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-02 - Laid on Table -SJ 770 [S0632 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-S0632-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2012                                     SB 632
       
       
       
       By Senator Benacquisto
       
       
       
       
       27-00250-12                                            2012632__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to funerals, burials, and memorial
    3         services; creating s. 871.015, F.S.; providing a
    4         definition; prohibiting picketing or engaging in other
    5         protest activities within a specified distance of the
    6         property line of the location of a funeral, burial, or
    7         memorial service for certain persons; providing
    8         criminal penalties; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 871.015, Florida Statutes, is created to
   13  read:
   14         871.015 Unlawful protests.—
   15         (1) As used in this section, the term “other protest
   16  activities” means any actions that are disruptive or undertaken
   17  to disrupt or disturb a funeral, burial, or memorial service.
   18         (2) A person may not knowingly picket or engage in other
   19  protest activities, and a person may not knowingly cause
   20  picketing or other protest activities to occur, within 500 feet
   21  of the property line of any residence, cemetery, funeral home,
   22  house of worship, or other location during or within 1 hour
   23  before or 1 hour after the conducting of a funeral, burial, or
   24  memorial service at that place for any military service member,
   25  emergency response worker, elected official, or minor.
   26         (3) A person who violates this section commits a
   27  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.
   28  775.082 or s. 775.083.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2012.