Senate Bill 0308

    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 308

    By Senator Clary





    7-251-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to victim assistance; amending

  3         s. 960.001, F.S.; granting the victim of a

  4         crime standing to assert the rights of the

  5         victim; providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Present subsections (7) and (8) of section

10  960.001, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (8)

11  and (9), respectively, and a new subsection (7) is added to

12  that section, to read:

13         960.001  Guidelines for fair treatment of victims and

14  witnesses in the criminal justice and juvenile justice

15  systems.--

16         (7)  The victim of a crime shall have standing to

17  assert the rights of a crime victim which are provided by law

18  or s. 16(b), Art. I of the State Constitution.

19         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

20  law.

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23                          SENATE SUMMARY

24    Provides that a victim of a crime has standing to assert
      the rights provided by law or the State Constitution for
25    the crime victim.

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