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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

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11  Representative(s) Goodlette offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

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16  and insert:  Section 3.  Subsection (7) of section 921.0021,

17  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

18         921.0021  Definitions.--As used in this chapter, for

19  any felony offense, except any capital felony, committed on or

20  after October 1, 1998, the term:

21         (7)(a)  "Victim injury" means the physical injury or

22  death suffered by a person or animal, in an animal cruelty

23  case, as a direct result of the primary offense, or any

24  additional offense, for which an offender is convicted and

25  which is pending before the court for sentencing at the time

26  of the primary offense.

27         (b)  Except as provided in paragraph (c) or paragraph

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29         1.  If the conviction is for an offense involving

30  sexual contact that includes sexual penetration, the sexual

31  penetration must be scored in accordance with the sentence

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 1  points provided under s. 921.0024 for sexual penetration,

 2  regardless of whether there is evidence of any physical

 3  injury.

 4         2.  If the conviction is for an offense involving

 5  sexual contact that does not include sexual penetration, the

 6  sexual contact must be scored in accordance with the sentence

 7  points provided under s. 921.0024 for sexual contact,

 8  regardless of whether there is evidence of any physical

 9  injury.

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11  If the victim of an offense involving sexual contact suffers

12  any physical injury as a direct result of the primary offense

13  or any additional offense committed by the offender resulting

14  in conviction, such physical injury must be scored separately

15  and in addition to the points scored for the sexual contact or

16  the sexual penetration.

17         (c)  The sentence points provided under s. 921.0024 for

18  sexual contact or sexual penetration may not be assessed for a

19  violation of s. 944.35(3)(b)2.

20         (d)  If the conviction is for the offense described in

21  s. 872.06, the sentence points provided under s. 921.0024 for

22  sexual contact or sexual penetration may not be assessed.

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26  And the title is amended as follows:

27         On page 1, line 29,

28  remove from the title of the bill:  all of said line

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30  and insert in lieu thereof:

31         or cat pelt; providing penalties; amending s.

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 1         921.0021, F.S.; revising the definition of the

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