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FL S0006
Bill
Status
Failed
1/27/2025
Primary Sponsor
Blaise Ingoglia
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AI Summary
- Expands Florida's criminal gang statutes to explicitly cover transnational criminal organizations and terrorist organizations, updating legislative findings to declare these groups a clear and present danger to public safety
- Defines "transnational criminal organization" as groups operating across borders for power or profit through crime, corruption, or violence, including organizations designated by Presidential Executive Order or the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control
- Creates enhanced penalties for offenses committed to benefit, promote, or further the interests of a hate group, terrorist organization, or transnational criminal organization, increasing each offense by one degree (e.g., first-degree felony enhanced to life felony), with findings required beyond a reasonable doubt
- Subjects all profits, proceeds, instrumentalities, and property used or intended to facilitate hate group, terrorist organization, or transnational criminal organization activity to seizure and forfeiture under the Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act
- Makes knowingly initiating, organizing, planning, financing, directing, managing, or supervising the activities of a hate group, terrorist organization, or transnational criminal organization a first-degree felony punishable up to life imprisonment
Legislative Description
Combatting Illegal Immigration, Terrorist Organizations, and Transnational Organized Crime and Their Illegal Immigrant Participants
Last Action
Died, not introduced
1/27/2025
Full Bill Text
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