FL S0872

Adds "aggravated fleeing or eluding with serious bodily injury or death" as a felony that triggers murder charges under Florida law, making a killing during such a felony prosecutable as first-degree murder (capital felony), second-degree murder, or third-degree murder depending on circumstances.

Updates the Criminal Punishment Code offense severity ranking chart to reflect the new felony category, placing aggravated fleeing or eluding with serious bodily injury or death in Level 8 and Level 9 offense rankings.

Reenacts cross-referenced statutes (775.0823, 782.051, 782.065, and 947.146) to incorporate the amendments to murder statutes.

Officially names the legislation the "Deputy John C. Mecklenburg Act."

Takes effect October 1, 2012.