Loading chat...
FL S0496
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/2/2023
Primary Sponsor
Criminal Justice
Click for details
AI Summary
- Courts must consider electronic monitoring and a prohibition from being within 1,000 feet of any school as conditions of pretrial release for persons charged with certain offenses committed at or against a school or against a student at school
- Courts must consider the same electronic monitoring and 1,000-foot school proximity restrictions as conditions of probation or community control for offenders convicted of qualifying school-related crimes committed on or after October 1, 2023
- Covered offenses include exhibiting firearms or weapons on school property (s. 790.115), making destructive devices (s. 790.161), bomb threats, hoaxes involving weapons of mass destruction, trespassing on school grounds (s. 810.095), and written or electronic threats to kill or do bodily harm (s. 836.10)
- "School" is broadly defined to include early learning, prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, middle, junior high, secondary, career center, and postsecondary schools, whether public or private
- The bill also amends the firearms sale and delivery statute (s. 790.065) to conform a cross-reference resulting from the renumbering of subsections in the pretrial detention law
Legislative Description
Electronic Monitoring of Persons Charged with or Convicted of Offenses Involving Schools or Students
Last Action
Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 329 (Ch. 2023-225)
5/2/2023
Committee Referrals
Rules4/13/2023
Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice3/29/2023
Full Bill Text
No bill text available