Senate Bill sb0106

    Florida Senate - 2002                                   SB 106

    By Senator Smith





    5-15-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to sentencing; amending s.

  3         921.0022, F.S.; authorizing the state and

  4         defendant to waive preparation of a worksheet

  5         and scoresheet under the Criminal Punishment

  6         Code and requiring the court to proceed with

  7         sentencing; requiring that the scoresheet be

  8         filed within a specified period after

  9         sentencing; providing an effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 921.0022, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         921.0022  Criminal Punishment Code; offense severity

16  ranking chart.--

17         (1)  The offense severity ranking chart must be used

18  with the Criminal Punishment Code worksheet to compute a

19  sentence score for each felony offender whose offense was

20  committed on or after October 1, 1998. However, the state and

21  the defendant may waive the presentencing preparation of a

22  Criminal Punishment Code worksheet and scoresheet and the

23  court shall proceed to sentence the defendant. The scoresheet

24  must be prepared and filed within 14 days after sentencing in

25  accordance with other requirements of this chapter.

26         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

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29                          SENATE SUMMARY

30    Authorizes the state and a defendant to waive, prior to
      sentencing, the preparation of a worksheet and scoresheet
31    under the Criminal Punishment Code and requires the court
      to proceed with sentencing.
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