Florida Senate - 2017                                      SB 88
       
       
        
       By Senator Steube
       
       23-00226-17                                             201788__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to threatening violence using a
    3         firearm; amending s. 790.162, F.S.; prohibiting a
    4         person from threatening to use a firearm in a violent
    5         manner against another person; providing a criminal
    6         penalty; providing an effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Section 790.162, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   11  read:
   12         790.162 Threatening Threat to throw, project, place, or
   13  discharge any destructive device or threatening to use firearm
   14  in violent manner, felony; penalty.—It is unlawful for a any
   15  person to threaten to throw, project, place, or discharge a any
   16  destructive device or to threaten to use a firearm in a violent
   17  manner against another person with intent to do bodily harm to
   18  any person or with intent to do damage to any property of any
   19  person. A, and any person who violates this section convicted
   20  thereof commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as
   21  provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
   22         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2017.