SENATE AMENDMENT

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11  Senator Cowin moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 1, line 28, through page 2, line 2, delete

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17  and insert:  two or more of the sentences be served

18  concurrently. Any sentence for sexual battery as defined in

19  chapter 794 or murder as defined in s.782.04 must be imposed

20  consecutively to any other sentence for sexual battery or

21  murder which arose out of a separate criminal episode or

22  transaction.

23         Section 3.  Section 921.161, Florida Statutes, is

24  amended to read:

25         921.161  Sentence not to run until imposed; credit for

26  county jail time after sentence; certificate of custodian of

27  jail sheriff.--

28         (1)  A sentence of imprisonment shall not begin to run

29  before the date it is imposed, but the court imposing a

30  sentence shall allow a defendant credit for all of the time

31  she or he spent in the county jail before sentence. The credit

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 1  must be for a specified period of time and shall be provided

 2  for in the sentence.

 3         (2)  In addition to other credits, a person sentenced

 4  to imprisonment in custody of the Department of Corrections

 5  shall receive credit on her or his sentence for all time spent

 6  between sentencing and being placed in custody of the

 7  department. When delivering a prisoner to the department, the

 8  custodian of the local jail sheriff shall certify to it in

 9  writing:

10         (a)  The date the sentence was imposed and the date the

11  prisoner was delivered to the department.

12         (b)  The dates of any periods after sentence the

13  prisoner was at liberty on bond.

14         (c)  The dates and reasons for any other times the

15  prisoner was at liberty after sentence.

16         (d)  The offender-based transaction system number or

17  numbers from the uniform arrest report or reports established

18  pursuant to s. 943.05(2).

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20  The certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the facts

21  certified.

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23  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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27  And the title is amended as follows:

28         On page 1, lines 5 through 8, delete those lines

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30  and insert:

31         F.S.; requiring any sentence for sexual battery

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 1         or murder to be imposed consecutively to any

 2         other sentence for sexual battery or murder

 3         which arose out of a separate criminal episode;

 4         amending s. 921.161, F.S.; authorizing the

 5         custodian of the local jail to provide certain

 6         written certification to the Department of

 7         Corrections when delivering a prisoner into the

 8         custody of the department;

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