House Bill hb0907

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                 HB 907

        By Representative Kendrick






  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; an employee or

23  protective investigator of the Department of Children and

24  Family Services; or an employee of a lead community-based

25  provider and its direct service contract providers, when the

26  person committing the offense knows or has reason to know the

27  identity or position or employment of the victim, the offense

28  for which the person is charged shall be reclassified as

29  follows:

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

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

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                 HB 907

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

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

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

  4  first degree to a felony of the third degree.

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

  6  second degree to a misdemeanor of the first degree.

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

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

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