Senate Bill sb1062

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1062

    By Senator Crist





    12-582-03

  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 offense of

  5         assault, battery, aggravated assault, or

  6         aggravated battery if the offense is committed

  7         upon certain persons officiating at an

  8         interscholastic activity; providing an

  9         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.  Section 784.081, Florida Statutes, is

14  amended to read:

15         784.081  Assault or battery on specified officials or

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

17  charged with committing an assault or aggravated assault or a

18  battery or aggravated battery upon any elected official or

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

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

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

22  state system of public education, as defined in s. 1000.04; an

23  interscholastic sports official as defined in s.

24  440.02(15)(d)11.; an employee or protective investigator of

25  the Department of Children and Family Services; or an employee

26  of a lead community-based provider and its direct service

27  contract providers, when the person committing the offense

28  knows or has reason to know the identity or position or

29  employment of the victim, the offense for which the person is

30  charged shall be reclassified as follows:

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1062
    12-582-03




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

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

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

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

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

  6  first degree to a felony of the third degree.

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

  8  second degree to a misdemeanor of the first degree.

  9         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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