Senate Bill 0712

    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 712

    By Senator Silver





    38-434-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to concealed weapons; amending

  3         s. 790.06, F.S.; prohibiting persons from

  4         carrying a concealed weapon into a health care

  5         facility or on its grounds or into other

  6         specified places; providing penalties;

  7         providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (12) of section 790.06, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         790.06  License to carry concealed weapon or firearm.--

14         (12)  No license issued pursuant to this section shall

15  authorize any person to carry a concealed weapon or firearm,

16  nor may any person carry a concealed weapon or firearm, into

17  any place of nuisance as defined in s. 823.05; any police,

18  sheriff, or highway patrol station; any detention facility,

19  prison, or jail; any courthouse; any courtroom, except that

20  nothing in this section would preclude a judge from carrying a

21  concealed weapon or determining who will carry a concealed

22  weapon in his or her courtroom; any polling place; any meeting

23  of the governing body of a county, public school district,

24  municipality, or special district; any meeting of the

25  Legislature or a committee thereof; any school, college, or

26  professional athletic event not related to firearms; any

27  school administration building; any portion of an

28  establishment licensed to dispense alcoholic beverages for

29  consumption on the premises, which portion of the

30  establishment is primarily devoted to such purpose; any

31  elementary or secondary school facility; any area technical

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 712
    38-434-00




  1  center; any college or university facility unless the licensee

  2  is a registered student, employee, or faculty member of such

  3  college or university and the weapon is a stun gun or

  4  nonlethal electric weapon or device designed solely for

  5  defensive purposes and the weapon does not fire a dart or

  6  projectile; inside the passenger terminal and sterile area of

  7  any airport, provided that no person shall be prohibited from

  8  carrying any legal firearm into the terminal, which firearm is

  9  encased for shipment for purposes of checking such firearm as

10  baggage to be lawfully transported on any aircraft; any health

11  care facility, as defined in s. 408.07(23) or its grounds; or

12  any place where the carrying of firearms is prohibited by

13  federal law.  Any person who willfully violates any provision

14  of this subsection commits a misdemeanor of the second degree,

15  punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

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

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19                          SENATE SUMMARY

20    Prohibits the carrying of a concealed weapon, even with a
      license to carry such weapon, into a health care facility
21    or on its grounds.

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