House Bill 0639

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 639

        By Representative Lynn






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to public servants; amending s.

  3         836.10, F.S.; providing penalties for

  4         threatening a public servant with death or

  5         bodily injury; 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.  Section 836.10, Florida Statutes, is

10  amended to read:

11         836.10  Written threats to kill or do bodily injury;

12  written threats to public servants; punishment.--

13         (1)  Except as provided in subsection (2), if any

14  person writes or composes and also sends or procures the

15  sending of any letter or inscribed communication, so written

16  or composed, whether such letter or communication be signed or

17  anonymous, to any person, containing a threat to kill or to do

18  bodily injury to the person to whom such letter or

19  communication is sent, or a threat to kill or do bodily injury

20  to any member of the family of the person to whom such letter

21  or communication is sent, the person so writing or composing

22  and so sending or procuring the sending of such letter or

23  communication, shall be guilty of a felony of the second

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

25  s. 775.084.

26         (2)  If any person writes or composes and sends or

27  transmits or procures the sending or transmission of any

28  letter, inscribed communication, or electronic communication,

29  whether such letter or communication be signed or anonymous,

30  to any public servant, as defined in s. 838.014(4), containing

31  a threat to kill or to do bodily injury to the public servant

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 639

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  1  to whom such letter or communication is sent, or a threat to

  2  kill or do bodily injury to any member of the family of the

  3  public servant to whom such letter or communication is sent,

  4  the person who wrote or composed and who sent or transmitted

  5  or procured the sending or transmission of such letter or

  6  communication shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first

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

  8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2000.

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      Provides penalties for threatening a public servant with
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