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FL S0694

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/30/2017

Primary Sponsor

Appropriations

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Origin

Senate

2018 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Allows courts to impose sentences other than mandatory minimum imprisonment and mandatory fines for drug trafficking convictions under s. 893.135, F.S.
  • Court may deviate from mandatory sentencing if it finds on the record that the defendant did not engage in a continuing criminal enterprise as defined in s. 893.20(1).
  • Court may deviate from mandatory sentencing if the defendant did not use, threaten, or possess a weapon during the crime.
  • Court may deviate from mandatory sentencing if the defendant did not cause death or serious bodily injury.
  • Effective date: July 1, 2018.

Legislative Description

Mandatory Sentences

Last Action

Died on Calendar

3/10/2018

Committee Referrals

Appropriations2/16/2018
Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice1/31/2018
Judiciary12/5/2017
Criminal Justice11/8/2017

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