Senate Bill sb2482

    Florida Senate - 2003        (Corrected Copy)          SB 2482

    By Senator Dockery





    15-1502A-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to name change petitions;

  3         amending s. 68.07, F.S.; requiring the petition

  4         to contain certain criminal background

  5         information; requiring a report to be sent to

  6         the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and

  7         the Department of Highway Safety and Motor

  8         Vehicles; 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.  Paragraph (h) of subsection (2) and

13  subsection (5) of section 68.07, Florida Statutes, are amended

14  to read:

15         68.07  Change of name.--

16         (2)  The petition shall be verified and show:

17         (h)  Whether petitioner has ever been charged with,

18  pled guilty or nolo contendere to, or found to have committed

19  a criminal offense, regardless of adjudication convicted of a

20  felony and if so, when and where.

21         (5)  If the petitioner is a convicted felon, The clerk

22  must, upon the filing of the final judgment, send a report of

23  the judgment to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on a

24  form to be furnished by that department. The Florida

25  Department of Law Enforcement must send a copy of the report

26  to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, which

27  report may be by electronic transmission. The report must

28  contain sufficient information to identify the original

29  criminal record of the petitioner, including fingerprints

30  taken by a law enforcement agency, the new name of the

31  petitioner, and the file number of the judgment. Any costs

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    Florida Senate - 2003        (Corrected Copy)          SB 2482
    15-1502A-03




 1  from fingerprinting must be paid by the petitioner. With

 2  respect to a person convicted of a felony in another state or

 3  of a federal offense, the Florida Department of Law

 4  Enforcement must send the report to the respective state's

 5  office of law enforcement records or to the office of the

 6  Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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

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11    Requires petitions for name changes to show whether the
      petitioner has been charged with, pled guilty or nolo
12    contendere to, or found to have committed a criminal
      offense, regardless of adjudication. Requires reports of
13    final judgments in such actions to be sent to the Florida
      Department of Law Enforcement, including fingerprints.
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