Bill Text: FL S1106 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Credit Cards/Fraudulently Taking or Using [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-30 - Placed on Special Order Calendar; Died on Calendar [S1106 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1106-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1106 
 
By Senator Crist 
12-00891A-10                                          20101106__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to fraudulently taking or using a 
3         credit card; amending s. 817.60, F.S.; providing that 
4         a person who takes a credit card from the possession, 
5         custody, or control of another without the 
6         cardholder’s consent, who possesses, receives, or 
7         retains custody of the credit card with the knowledge 
8         that it has been taken, or who receives the credit 
9         card with the intent to use it, to sell it, or to 
10         transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the 
11         cardholder commits a felony of the third degree rather 
12         than a misdemeanor of the first degree; providing 
13         increased criminal penalties; providing an effective 
14         date. 
15 
16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
17 
18         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 817.60, Florida 
19  Statutes, is amended to read: 
20         817.60 Theft; obtaining credit card through fraudulent 
21  means.— 
22         (1) THEFT BY TAKING OR RETAINING POSSESSION OF CARD TAKEN. 
23  A person who takes a credit card from the person, possession, 
24  custody, or control of another without the cardholder’s consent; 
25  or who possess, receives, or retains custody of the card, with 
26  knowledge that it has been so taken; or who, receives the credit 
27  card with intent to use it, to sell it, or to transfer it to a 
28  person other than the issuer or the cardholder commits is guilty 
29  of credit card theft and is subject to the penalties set forth 
30  in s. 817.67(2) s. 817.67(1). Taking a credit card without 
31  consent includes obtaining it by conduct defined or known as 
32  statutory larceny, common-law larceny by trespassory taking, 
33  common-law larceny by trick or embezzlement or obtaining 
34  property by false pretense, false promise or extortion. 
35         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.