House Bill hb1123

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HB 1123

        By Representatives Kendrick, Spratt, Bense, Stansel,
    Machek, Bendross-Mindingall, Cusack, Pickens, Bean, Henriquez,
    Greenstein, Ausley, Fields and Justice




  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to assault or battery on

  3         specified officials; amending s. 784.081, F.S.;

  4         providing enhanced penalties for the offenses

  5         of assault, battery, aggravated assault, and

  6         aggravated battery if the offense is committed

  7         on a person officiating an interscholastic

  8         activity; providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Section 784.081, Florida Statutes, is

13  amended to read:

14         784.081  Assault or battery on specified officials or

15  employees; reclassification of offenses.--Whenever a person is

16  charged with committing an assault or aggravated assault or a

17  battery or aggravated battery upon any elected official or

18  employee of: a school district; a private school; the Florida

19  School for the Deaf and the Blind; a university developmental

20  research school; a state university or any other entity of the

21  state system of public education, as defined in s. 228.041; a

22  person officiating an interscholastic activity; or an employee

23  or protective investigator of the Department of Children and

24  Family Services, when the person committing the offense knows

25  or has reason to know the identity or position or employment

26  of the victim, the offense for which the person is charged

27  shall be reclassified as follows:

28         (1)  In the case of aggravated battery, from a felony

29  of the second degree to a felony of the first degree.

30         (2)  In the case of aggravated assault, from a felony

31  of the third degree to a felony of the second degree.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HB 1123

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  1         (3)  In the case of battery, from a misdemeanor of the

  2  first degree to a felony of the third degree.

  3         (4)  In the case of assault, from a misdemeanor of the

  4  second degree to a misdemeanor of the first degree.

  5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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  8                          SENATE SUMMARY

  9    Reclassifies the penalty to the next degree of severity
      if a person commits an assault, battery, aggravated
10    assault, or aggravated battery on a person who is
      officiating an interscholastic activity.
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