House Bill hb0793c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002              CS/HB 793

        By the Council for Smarter Government and Representative
    Baker





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to school system personnel;

  3         creating s. 231.265, F.S.; providing a penalty

  4         for instructional personnel and administrative

  5         personnel who have knowledge of sexual battery

  6         committed by a student upon another student and

  7         fail to report it; 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.  Section 231.265, Florida Statutes, is

12  created to read:

13         231.265  Failure to report certain offenses;

14  penalty.--If any instructional personnel or administrative

15  personnel has knowledge that a sexual battery has been

16  committed by a student upon another student and fails to

17  report the offense to a law enforcement agency having

18  jurisdiction over the school plant, or over the place where

19  the sexual battery occurred if not on the grounds of the

20  school plant, that failure constitutes a misdemeanor of the

21  first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s.

22  775.083.

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

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