Senate Bill 1224

    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1224

    By Senator Dyer





    14-290-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to sexual predators; amending

  3         s. 775.21, F.S.; requiring a sexual predator to

  4         report in person to a driver's license office

  5         within a specified period after the predator's

  6         name is changed by reason of marriage or other

  7         legal process; requiring that the Department of

  8         Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles forward such

  9         information to the Department of Law

10         Enforcement and the Department of Corrections;

11         providing a penalty; providing an effective

12         date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Paragraph (g) of subsection (6) and

17  paragraph (a) of subsection (10) of section 775.21, Florida

18  Statutes, are amended to read:

19         775.21  The Florida Sexual Predators Act; definitions;

20  legislative findings, purpose, and intent; criteria;

21  designation; registration; community and public notification;

22  immunity; penalties.--

23         (6)  REGISTRATION.--

24         (g)  Each time a sexual predator's driver's license or

25  identification card is subject to renewal, and within 48 hours

26  after any change of the predator's residence or change in the

27  predator's name by reason of marriage or other legal process,

28  the predator shall report in person to a driver's license

29  office, and shall be subject to the requirements specified in

30  paragraph (f). The Department of Highway Safety and Motor

31  Vehicles shall forward to the department and to the Department

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1224
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  1  of Corrections all photographs and information provided by

  2  sexual predators. Notwithstanding the restrictions set forth

  3  in s. 322.142, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor

  4  Vehicles is authorized to release a reproduction of a

  5  color-photograph or digital-image license to the Department of

  6  Law Enforcement for purposes of public notification of sexual

  7  predators as provided in this section.

  8         (10)  PENALTIES.--

  9         (a)  Except as otherwise specifically provided, a

10  sexual predator who fails to register; or who fails, after

11  registration, to maintain, acquire, or renew a driver's

12  license or identification card; who fails to or provide

13  required location information or change-of-name information;,

14  or who otherwise fails, by act or omission, to comply with the

15  requirements of this section, commits a felony of the third

16  degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or

17  s. 775.084.

18         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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21                          SENATE SUMMARY

22    Requires that a sexual predator report any legal change
      in his or her name to a driver's license office within 48
23    hours after the change. Provides that it is a
      third-degree felony to fail to report such information.
24    Requires the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
      Vehicles to forward the change-of-name information to the
25    Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of
      Corrections.
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