Senate Bill 0860c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                            CS for SB 860

    By the Committee on Criminal Justice and Senator Kirkpatrick





    307-2100-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to voyeurism; creating s.

  3         810.14, F.S.; prohibiting a person from

  4         secretly observing or committing other acts

  5         against another person with lewd, lascivious,

  6         or indecent intent when the other person is in

  7         a location that provides a reasonable

  8         expectation of privacy; providing that a person

  9         may be convicted and sentenced separately for

10         the voyeurism offense and for any other

11         criminal offense; providing for criminal

12         penalties; providing an effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Section 810.14, Florida Statutes, is

17  created to read:

18         810.14  Voyeurism prohibited; penalties.--

19         (1)  A person commits the offense of voyeurism when he

20  or she, with lewd, lascivious, or indecent intent, secretly

21  observes, photographs, films, videotapes, or records another

22  person when such other person is located in a dwelling,

23  structure, or conveyance and such location provides a

24  reasonable expectation of privacy.

25         (2)  A person may be convicted of and sentenced

26  separately for a violation of this section and for any other

27  criminal offense, including, but not limited to, burglary,

28  trespass, or loitering.

29         (3)  A person who violates this section commits:

30         (a)  A misdemeanor of the first degree for the first

31  violation, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                            CS for SB 860
    307-2100-98




  1         (b)  A felony of the third degree for a second or

  2  subsequent violation, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s.

  3  775.083, or s. 775.084.

  4         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1998.

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  6          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  7                         Senate Bill 860

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  9  1.   Provides that the offense of voyeurism is committed when
         a person, with lewd, lascivious, or indecent intent,
10       secretly observes, photographs, films, videotapes, or
         records another person when such other person is located
11       in a dwelling, structure, or conveyance and such location
         provides a reasonable expectation of privacy.
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    2.   Provides that a person may be convicted of and sentenced
13       separately for a violation of the new section and for any
         other criminal offense, including but not limited to,
14       burglary, trespass, or loitering.

15  3.   Provides that a first violation of the new section is a
         first degree misdemeanor; a second or subsequent
16       violation is a third degree felony.

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