Bill Text: FL S0860 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Threats [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-22 - Read 3rd time -SJ 00742; Substituted CS/HB 317 -SJ 00742; Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 317 (Ch. 2010-51) -SJ 00742 [S0860 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0860-Comm_Sub.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                              CS for SB 860 
 
By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Oelrich 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to threats; amending s. 836.10, F.S.; 
3         revising provisions relating to the sending of or 
4         procuring the sending of letters or inscribed 
5         communications containing certain threats of death or 
6         bodily injury; including electronic communications in 
7         such provisions; providing an effective date. 
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9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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11         Section 1. Section 836.10, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
12  read: 
13         836.10 Written threats to kill or do bodily injury; 
14  punishment.—If Any person who writes or composes and also sends 
15  or procures the sending of any letter, or inscribed 
16  communication, or electronic communication, so written or 
17  composed, whether such letter or communication is be signed or 
18  anonymous, to any person, containing a threat to kill or to do 
19  bodily injury to the person to whom such letter or communication 
20  is sent, or a threat to kill or do bodily injury to any member 
21  of the family of the person to whom such letter or communication 
22  is sent commits, the person so writing or composing and so 
23  sending or procuring the sending of such letter or 
24  communication, shall be guilty of a felony of the second degree, 
25  punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. 
26         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2010.