HB 0269 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Judiciary recommends the following:
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8	Committee Substitute
9	Remove the entire bill and insert:
10	A bill to be entitled
11	An act relating to civil and criminal jurisdiction over
12	Indian reservations; amending s. 285.16, F.S.; exempting
13	existing reservations of the Miccosukee Indian Tribe of
14	Florida from a provision of law authorizing the State of
15	Florida to take jurisdiction of civil and criminal matters
16	on Indian reservations in the state; providing that the
17	state shall retain jurisdiction over certain civil causes
18	of action; expressly retaining jurisdiction over certain
19	criminal offenses; providing an effective date.
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21	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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23	Section 1. Section 285.16, Florida Statutes, is amended to
24	read:
25	285.16 Civil and criminal jurisdiction; Indian
26	reservation; exception.--
27	(1) The State of Florida hereby assumes jurisdiction over
28	criminal offenses committed by or against Indians or other
29	persons within Indian reservations and over civil causes of
30	actions between Indians or other persons or to which Indians or
31	other persons are parties rising within Indian reservations.
32	(2) The civil and criminal laws of Florida shall obtain on
33	all Indian reservations in this state and shall be enforced in
34	the same manner as elsewhere throughout the state.
35	(3) This section shall not apply to existing Indian
36	reservations of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida,
37	except that the State of Florida shall retain jurisdiction over
38	civil causes of action which arise on said reservations and
39	which involve a non-Indian party. This civil cause of action
40	exception shall expire on July 1, 2005. The State of Florida
41	also expressly retains concurrent jurisdiction over criminal
42	offenses committed within these reservations when any victim of
43	the offense is a non-Indian.
44	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.